Patna: A senior officer with the Bihar Military Police had to bear the brunt of "stripping" RJD chief Lalu Prasad of the elite force's commandos.

Sources in the police headquarters said an MLA considered close to Lalu got agitated as soon as he came to know about the order to withdraw the commandos from Lalu's former chief minister wife Rabri Devi's official bungalow, 10 Circular Road in Patna, on Tuesday night.

The MLA reportedly asked his subordinate to make a call on the officer's official mobile phone. As soon as the officer's cellphone got connected, the legislator started rebuking him for what he called a "whimsical order".

"Do you know the consequences of your action? How dare you do that?" he thundered over the phone. The officer tried to convince the MLA but in vain. "There is no use of the commandos as the VIP is in jail. The decision has been taken in consultation with the police headquarters," the police officer said to cool down the angry lawmaker.

The force ceases to work once a VIP is either sent to judicial custody or passes away, the officer told the legislator.

A total of 17 personnel - four havildars (one jamadar) and 13 commandos of the BMP's second battalion - were shifted to its battalion headquarters at Dehri-on-Sone on the directive of commandant of the BMP's second battalion Parvez Akhtar.

The commandant reportedly swung into action after his attention was drawn towards continuation of the commandos even after Lalu was sent to judicial custody in the fodder scam cases.

A senior official with the special branch first got the information about the continuation of the commandos drafted for Lalu's security.

"Why the force has not been shifted?" the special branch official sought to know from the commandant, who had no option but to comply with the order of his senior.

"It may be a coincidence that the commandos were shifted on the day the CBI quizzed Rabri Devi in the land-for-hotel case. It seems that the personnel were waiting for the order of the boss (read Lalu) and not the commandant," another officer posted at the headquarters said.

Akhtar said the commandos and the havildars reached the battalion headquarters around 9am on Wednesday. In fact they could have returned to the headquarters soon after Lalu was sent to jail, he added. He, however, refused to elaborate. Sources said the personnel of the BMP's first and seventh battalion were still at the beck and call of Lalu.