All you need to know about Rocky Yadav's dad Bindi, known as Terror Of Gaya
Bindi was reportedly involved in the kidnapping of two businessmen Jai Kumar Jain and Babli Jain, who were released for ransoms of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 17 lakh respectively in 2001.
In July last year, Nitish Kumar's JD(U) inducted dreaded gangster Bindeshwari Yadav aka Bindi Yadav, whose name figures in over two dozen cases of murder, kidnapping and dacoity.
Questions were raised then about the decision as JD(U) reportedly wanted to make Bihar free of crime.
Now, Bindi is back in the limelight, this time after his son shot dead teenager Aditya Sachdeva, allegedly for refusing to give way to his Land Cruiser.
A jab of Jungle Raj
Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar's claims that he won't allow "jungle raj" to return in Bihar seem to have taken a hit.
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Bindi Yadav's wife Manorama Devi is also a JD(U) member and fought council polls as a proxy for husband Bindi. She has represented the seat from 2003-2009 as well.
All about Bindi Yadav
- Known for their notoriety in the Gaya-Jahanabad-Arwal are, Bindi in the 1990s, alongwith another gangster Bachchu Yadav, spread a reign of terror in the region.
- This led to largescale migration of businessmen from the Magadh region and plummeting of real estate prices.
- During that period the government had to invoke Crime Control Act to rein in Bindi and Bachchu Yadav. Later, Bindi and Bachchu parted ways.
- Bindi was reportedly involved in the case of kidnapping of two businessmen Jai Kumar Jain and Babli Jain, who were released for ransoms of Rs 10 lakh and Rs 17 lakh respectively in 2001.
- In 2011, Bindi Yadav was arrested after police recovered a huge cache of explosives, rifles and ammunition from his vehicle.
- This recovery was allegedly meant to be supplied to Maoists in 2010 elections to target security forces. He was slapped with sedition charge.
- Yadav is said to have been inducted in a bid to provide more muscle to the party ahead of the crucial assembly elections.
- He has unsuccessfully contested Assembly elections in 2005 and 2010, once as an Independent and once on RJD ticket.
- He is said to live in a house allegedly 'captured' during the 15-year rule of Lalu Prasad and Rabri Devi in 1990s."
- Bindi Yadav had also claimed that Rocky had fired from his pistol "by mistake".
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