Manorama Devi, the former JDU MLC whose son is accused of killing a youth in a road rage incident, and her husband Bindeshwari Prasad Yadav alias Bindi Yadav are yet to get relief in court.
District and sessions judge Sajal Mandilwar asked for lower court records and the case diary while hearing Manorama's regular bail plea on Tuesday. The court of additional chief judicial magistrate-IV (ACJM-IV), Om Sagar, meanwhile, rejected her husband Bindi's bail plea.
Hearing on Manorama's bail plea has been fixed for May 27.
Manorama, who was on the run since a warrant was issued against her for allegedly violating prohibition, surrendered before a Gaya court on the morning of May 17, a day after her nephew Teni Yadav, a co-accused in the road rage murder of Class XII student Aditya Sachdeva, also gave himself up in court.
Trouble began for Manorama and Bindi, an RJD strongman, after the name of their son Rakesh Ranjan Yadav, alias Rocky Yadav, figured in the road rage murder of Aditya on the evening of May 7.
Rocky allegedly shot dead Aditya in a fit of road rage triggered by the denial of right of way on the road from Bodhgaya to Gaya. He went missing and was later arrested from a hot mixer plant owned by his father on the night of May 10.
Bindi has been made accused for protection and harbouring the accused (his son Rocky) .
Manorama was made an accused in a case lodged with the Rampur police station after six liquor bottles were recovered from her house in AP colony on May 9 during a search to arrest Rocky. She has been made accused under sections 47, 48, 53 and 54 of the Excise Act (amended).
Qaiser Sarfuddin, their counsel, said: "We will file an appeal in the court of district and sessions judge with a plea to grant bail to Bindi Yadav."
Earlier, Manorama had filed an anticipatory bail petition in the court of district and sessions judge through her counsel. But after she surrendered in the court of ACJM-IV on May 17, the anticipatory bail petition was automatically withdrawn.
The Gaya district administration has already sealed her AP colony residence and started the process of confiscating the property under the excise act.
