Sadhu Yadav arrives in a Patna court to surrender. (PTI)

Patna, Dec. 4: RJD parliamentarian Sadhu Yadav, brother of former chief minister Rabri Devi, surrendered before a special vigilance court here today and was remanded to 14-days’ judicial custody in a case of forgery and cheating. The court will hear a bail application on Wednesday.

The Gopalganj MP, whose anticipatory bail petition was rejected by the Supreme Court last week, had no option but to surrender as the vigilance court had issued an order for attachment of his properties.

The vigilance bureau had asked the MP to surrender, respecting the law of the land, failing which it was to proceed and attach his properties.

Although Sadhu’s mother Maharajiya Devi submitted a petition stating that the properties deemed to be attached in Patna, Gopalganj and Delhi belonged to her, and not her son, additional director-general (vigilance) Neelmani said the matter was under investigation. The bureau would identify the status of the said properties, he added.

The MP alleged that the Nitish Kumar administration is trying to “trap him in a false case”. His lawyer Janardan Rai said the bail application would be moved because Parliament was in session and his client had to attend meetings of the Lok Sabha. Sadhu’s brother Subhash Yadav is a member of the Rajya Sabha.

Sadhu, who is also the brother-in-law of railway minister Lalu Prasad, has been sent to Beur Central Jail here in what happens to be his first journey to the prison as an accused in a criminal case.

He is the third RJD parliamentarian, after Mohammad Shahabuddin of Siwan and Pappu Yadav of Madhepura, to be lodged in a jail at present.

Sadhu had taken Rs 6 lakh from the alleged kingpin of the flood relief scam, Santosh Jha, and the money was credited to his bank account. The MP later clarified that the money was payment for a car that he had sold to Jha.

But the original owner, Delhi businessman Sumit Jena, said he did not sell the vehicle and was never paid for it.