Yashwant sent to jail in electricity official assault case

Posted on Jun 3 2014 - 8:07pm by IBC News

Hazaribagh, Jun 3  Senior BJP leader Yashwant Sinha, a former Union Finance Minister, was today sent to jail for two weeks by a court in a case of alleged assault of an electricity official whose hands were tied during protests against blackouts in Jharkhand.

Judicial Magistrate R B Pal sent Sinha and 54 others to judicial custody for 14 days after they refused to take bail.