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BJP leader Yashwant Sinha sent to jail in JSEB official assault case

Sinha and 54 others were remanded in 14-day judicial custody after they refused to take bail.

2 min readJun 3, 2014 02:39 PM IST First published on: Jun 3, 2014 at 02:38 PM IST
Sinha and others were arrested on Monday after JSEB's Hazaribagh branch General Manager Dhanesh Jha filed an FIR. (Source: PTI) Sinha and others were arrested on Monday after JSEB’s Hazaribagh branch General Manager Dhanesh Jha filed an FIR. (Source: PTI)

Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha and 54 others were remanded in judicial custody by a local court on Tuesday after they refused to seek bail in a case of alleged assault of a Jharkhand State Electricity Board official.

Judicial Magistrate R B Pal sent them to judicial custody for 14 days after Sinha and others refused to take bail.

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Sinha and others were arrested on Monday after JSEB’s Hazaribagh branch General Manager Dhanesh Jha filed an FIR,
accusing them of tying him up during a demonstration on electricity crisis by the BJP’s district unit here.

Sinha had admitted before the media yesterday that he had “instructed” the party’s women activists to tie up Jha using a rope.

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