A forensic team from Patna visited the house of absconding Nawada MLA Raj Ballabh Prasad - accused of raping a minor girl at his home on February 6 - for the second time on Friday, even as the Patna High Court deferred the hearing for the suspended RJD leader's anticipatory bail petition to Monday and a Biharsharif court sent four of his alleged accomplices to jail.

On February 14, Prasad's family and supporters had stopped a two-member forensic team from entering his house to collect evidence.

Nalanda superintendent of police (SP) Kumar Ashish said the four accused - Sulekha Devi, her mother Radha Devi, daughter Chhoti Kumari and relative Tusi Devi - were produced in a local court on Friday, which remanded them to judicial custody for two weeks.

The police had nabbed the four from Hilsa's Khaddi village on Thursday and brought them to Biharsharif, the district headquarters town, for interrogation.

The SP said that one of the four accused, Sulekha Devi, would be taken into police remand for further questioning.

The absconding MLA's bail petition came up for hearing in the high court on Friday.

His counsel, Y.V. Giri, requested the court to take up the matter at the earliest but the bench of Justice Dinesh Kumar Singh turned down the request and deferred the hearing to February 29.

The police's failure to nab Raj Ballabh has led to accusations from the Opposition that the government and the police are not serious about arresting him.

"The police's failure to nab the lawmaker has exposed the state police's intelligence," said a close relative of the 15-year-old victim. The girl's family has earlier said they are living in fear of the powerful lawmaker and his men.

The Nalanda SP said: "He (Raj Ballabh) has not been arrested even after extensive raids on his suspected hideouts in Nawada, Nalanda, Gaya and Patna districts." He hastened to add that the police would arrest the fugitive MLA at the earliest.

The police had earlier arrested the MLA's son Akhilesh from his Patna residence and quizzed him for several hours. Akhilesh was later released on personal bond.

The Nalanda police have not sought the help of the special task force (STF).

"Though a unit of the STF is stationed in Nalanda, I am not aware whether the personnel have been engaged in the raids," said a senior police officer.

The police headquarters had assigned the STF to arrest members of the Santosh Jha gang who are believed to be responsible for the murder of two engineers of a private construction company in Darbhanga last year.

"When the STF can be used in the engineers' murder case, why not in this rape case," asked the victim's relative.

The Nawada district administration on Friday suspended Raj Ballabh's arms licences and issued a show-cause notice asking him to reply within 10 days.

Acting arms magistrate Dhirendra Kumar Jha said that the MLA has been directed to surrender his licensed weapons and deposit them in the licensed arms shop. On Thursday, the Nalanda police had requested the Nawada district magistrate to cancel the MLA's arms licences.