Muzaffarpur (Bihar): A Bihar court on Saturday
began probe into landing of an IAF helicopter on the national
highway in 2007 by RJD supremo Lalu Prasad while undertaking
an aerial survey of floods without permission when he was
Railway minister.
Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate of Muzaffarpur, T
Yadav reopened the complaint case filed by senior advocate
Sudhir Ojha following the directive of district judge Prabhat
Kumar Jha and started the inquiry.
Jha had on November 23, 2009 asked ACJM Yadav to go into
the case afresh.
Sub-divisional magistrate (West), Muzaffarpur, T K Sinha
had on September 5, 2009 dismissed a complaint charging Prasad
of landing an IAF helicopter on the national highway.
Ojha, later, challenging the SDM's order in the court of
district judge, accused Prasad and former Union minister
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh of landing the IAF helicopter at
Maniari without permission on August 1, 2007 during a survey
of the flood-affected areas in Tirhut division.
PTI
First Published: Saturday, January 23, 2010, 19:09