Ex-MP Subhash Yadav surrenders before court in extortion case

Former RJD MP Subhash Yadav, who is the brother of former chief minister Rabri Devi, surrendered before the special MP-MLA court of Patna on Tuesday, days after he was declared an absconder in a case land grab and extortion.

On Monday, the special court had issued orders to attach the property of the former Rajya Sabha member after which a team of Patna police led by assistant superintendent of police (Danapur), Deeksha, arrived at Subhash Yadav’s house at Vidhayak Colony in Kautilya Nagar area of Patna to execute the court order.

“Before the police could start the process of property attachment, the prime accused surrendered before the court,” said ASP Deeksha.

On January 30, police had pasted the proclamation order issued by the court at his house.

According to the FIR lodged against Subhash Yadav and seven others on the statement of one Bhim Verma, a resident of Bela village in rural Patna, the former MP had purchased a plot of land in the name of his wife after paying Rs 96 lakh to Verma’s mother Meena Devi. The complainant alleged that on February 27, 2021, the former MP called him along with his mother and brother at his house and asked them to return Rs 60 lakh.

“The former MP took my mother and brother hostage at his house and threatened them with dire consequences if I failed to return said amount,” Verma alleged in the FIR, which, according to him, was registered only after the intervention of chief minister Nitish Kumar who he met at his official residence on June 6, 2022.