Impartial Bihar MP Rajesh Ranjan, popularly often called Pappu Yadav, being escorted by police personnel after his arrest in reference to a case relationship again to 1995, in Patna on late Friday (February 6, 2026).
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Purnia MP Pappu Yadav was shifted to Patna Medical School and Hospital on Saturday (February 7, 2026) after his well being deteriorated following his arrest in a 1995 case.
Mr. Yadav was dropped at Patna Hospital on a stretcher after officers shifted him from Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, the place he was admitted on Friday (February 6) night time, quickly after his arrest.
Dr. Rajiv Kumar Singh, Superintendent of Patna Medical School and Hospital, knowledgeable ANI that Mr. Yadav’s medical examination is at the moment underway.
“We didn’t discover it applicable to go inside, as it will create disturbance to the opposite sufferers additionally…Mr. Yadav’s ultrasound is being carried out,” he mentioned.
Mr. Yadav was arrested after he failed to seem in an alleged land dispute case from 1995.
The case includes Sections 419, 420, 468, 448, 506 and 120B and is linked to the Gardanibagh police station.
“It is a 1995 case which was below the previous IPC, now changed by the BNS (Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita), involving sections 419, 420, 468, 448, 506, and 120B. The arrest is being made below these sections. This case issues the Gardanibagh police station. The trial was ongoing in courtroom, and the MP was supposed to seem, however he didn’t seem on the scheduled date. Due to this fact, he’s being arrested,” Patna SP Metropolis Bhanu Pratap Singh informed reporters.
After police arrived to take him into custody at his Patna residence, Mr. Yadav expressed concern about his security.
“I’m not properly… I do not know what is going to occur with me,” he informed reporters.
Forward of his arrest, he informed ANI that he suspected the police may hurt him and mentioned he needed to go on to courtroom as a substitute of the police station.
He added that the courtroom had summoned him the subsequent day and advised that he could possibly be positioned below home arrest.
Mr. Yadav additionally questioned the police for arriving in civil garments, saying he initially thought they’d come to kill him.
Referring to the case, he mentioned it was registered almost 35 years in the past and questioned the necessity for his arrest at this stage.
“I’ve doubts that these folks may need killed me. I’ll go straight to the Court docket. I cannot go to the police station. If they need, they will home arrest me. The Court docket has known as me. Police reached right here in civil uniform like criminals. I assumed they’d come to kill me. Is that this a prison’s home? There was a case registered round 35 years in the past, and the police got here to arrest me in reference to that case,” Mr. Yadav mentioned.
Revealed – February 07, 2026 11:28 am IST
