Pappu Yadav's Jail Shenanigan Irks Supreme Court
New Delhi: December
15, 2004
Determined to put an end to the antics of the incarcerated Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) leader Pappu Yadav, the Supreme Court, on Tuesday, summoned CBI officials to get their take on which jail Yadav needs to be transferred where he would not treat the prison as his personal playground engaging in all sorts of activities against the jail manual.
The Supreme Court bench comprising Justice N. Santosh Hegde and Justice S. B. Sinha, while talking to Yadav's counsel, said that the Madhepura MP was ordered to be incarcerated and not be lodged in a 'five-star hotel'. "Yadav has violated every conceivable rule of the prison treating it as his personal playground", the court observed.
The court further notified all concerned parties to treat the Patna High Court's order to submit phone records of Pappu Yadav as an order of the Supreme Court and directed the CBI, Yadav's attorney and mobile companies to appear before the court with their explanations by January 3.
When Yadav's counsel R. K. Jain told the court that the arms of the law were long enough to take actions against his client in case he violated the jail rules again, the court reacted sharply by saying that apparently the arms were not long enough to contain a prisoner like Pappu Yadav who has shown blatant disregard for any rule or regulation meant for all under-trial prisoners. "He was ordered to be confined in prison, not in a five-star hotel," the Bench observed.
"Yadav has been living comfortably in hospital wards on one pretext or other and even now his supporters are spreading stories about him how sick he was and how he was being medical treatment", the court said adding Yadav had the tendency to treat himself as above the law of the land and question everyone's authority.
The CBI, in its report, wrote that on December 1, 2004, 54 people met Yadav in violation of jail rules and when the IG (Prison) Deepak Kumar Singh arrived at the Beur Jail to conduct a raid, he was illegally confined in a jail cell and threatened by Pappu
Yadav.
The court asked the opinion of the Additional Solicitor General Amarendra Saran representing the CBI as to which prison Yadav should be shifted and should it be in Bihar or outside the state.
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