BJP leader Yashwant Sinha sent to Jail in assault case

Senior BJP leader and former Finance Minister Yashwant Sinha and 54 others were sent to judicial custody by a Hazaribagh court today after they refused to look for bail in a case of alleged beating of a Jharkhand State Electricity Board official.

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

Mr 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 protest on electricity crisis by the BJP's district unit.

Mr Sinha had accepted before the media yesterday that he had "instructed" the party's women workers to bind Mr Jha using a rope.

"Yes, I asked them to tie the hands of the GM as women are the worst sufferers for not getting power. Their children's education is also suffering," Mr Sinha had said.

The Deputy SP had saved Mr Jha from the women. 

Mr Jha had said that this episode was "shameful and insulting."