Bhagalpur RJD women cell chief held for bid to poison husband

PATNA: The RJD on Sunday suspended its Bhagalpur district women cell president Nutan Kumari alias Nishu Singh from primary membership for six years, a day after she was arrested on the charges of attempting to poison her husband.
Police said Nishu, who was a named accused in an FIR lodged by her husband Vajesh around four years ago, was arrested from her residence in Deepnagar locality of Bhagalpur town on Saturday and produced before a court which sent her to jail.
Nishu earlier used to run a social organization to help women, before formally joining the RJD two years back. Her husband Vajesh, who is the grandson of former minister Jageshwar Mandal, had lodged an FIR with Jogsar PS (Bhagalpur) on February 22, 2018, alleging that she attempted to kill him by mixing poison in his food. Mandal was cooperative, rural development, excise and prohibition minister in the Karpoori Thakur cabinet. “Police found the charges levelled against Nishu as true. One of the former SPs had also ordered for her arrest. But a former DIG of Bhagalpur verbally asked not to arrest Nishu. Then, one of the deputy SPs told me that charges against Nishu had been found true, but we did not arrest her because of the DIG’s verbal order,” Vajesh said.
Vajesh said a sub-divisional court had issued a warrant of arrest against Nishu. But the police were reluctant to arrest her. “She was arrested after Babu Ram joined as Bhagalpur SP recently ,” Vajesh said.
“Nishu was suspended from the post of women cell’s district president at the directive of the RJD state president Jagdanand Singh,” RJD spokesperson Mrityunjay Tiwari told TOI on Sunday.