Patna: Murder accused Rakesh Ranjan alias Rocky Yadav on Saturday surrendered in a Bihar court over killing a class 12 student, police said.
“Rocky (Yadav), who arrived in Patna from Delhi on Saturday morning, surrendered in the Gaya Civil Court,” a district police officer said.
Rocky Yadav’s parents were also present in the court.
A district official in Gaya said Rocky Yadav was absconding soon after the Supreme Court cancelled his bail on Friday.
Rocky Yadav’s mother Manorma Devi, suspended Janata Dal-United MLC told a police team that visited her house to arrest her son following the Supreme Court cancelled his bail, that he will surrender in the court soon.
Rocky Yadav was accused of fatally shooting student Aditya Sachdeva after his’s Swift car overtook Rocky Yadav’s Land Rover on May 7.
Rocky Yadav was arrested on May 11.
Blocking implemenation of the Patna High Court’s October 19 order that granted Rocky Yadav bail, a top court bench of Justice SA Bobde and Justice Ashok Bhushan observed: “The chargesheet has already been filed in the case and this may go against you.”
The chargesheet has named Rocky Yadav and another man as co-accused in the murder case.
Seeking cancellation of Rocky Yadav’s bail, the Bihar government’s petition contended that “he has shot dead a young boy on the highway because he could not tolerate a small Swift car overtaking his big and imported Land Rover.”
IANS