Tej Pratap Yadav sent to jail over Bihar bandh linked to NEET paper leak protests

Tej Partap Yadav (centre) during the protest. PIC/X@TejYadav14

Former Bihar minister Tej Pratap Yadav was on Sunday sent to jail for trying to enforce the state-wide bandh called a day ago by students' unions over the NEET paper leak, his lawyer claimed.

The FIR against Tej Pratap Yadav was registered on July 26, while the arrest was made around 7.30 pm on July 25 evening from a mall in Patna. He was produced before the judicial magistrate court around 12.15 am on Sunday, which sent him to judicial custody.

According to Jagannath Singh, the lawyer of Yadav, who now heads Janshakti Janata Dal, Yadav has been sent to the Beur Central Jail on the outskirts of the city.

7.30 pm
Time Tej Partap Yadav was arrested on Saturday

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