JDU candidate and former Mokama MLA Anant Singh was arrested in connection with the murder of Dularchand Yadav, a Jan Suraj supporter. The high-profile arrest, days ahead of polling, has heightened political tensions in Bihar’s Mokama constituency

Patna: Bihar’s political temperature surged on Sunday after Janata Dal (United) candidate and former Mokama MLA Anant Singh was arrested in connection with the Dularchand Yadav murder case on Sunday morning.

Senior Superintendent of Police of Patna Kartikeya K Sharma reached Mokama with a large police contingent and arrested Singh from his Barh residence around 12.30 a.m. while he was reportedly asleep.

He was brought to Patna and produced before the Chief Judicial Magistrate at about 2 a.m., following which he was remanded to judicial custod

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