Gangster arrested for bashing Bihar’s MLA wife

Patna : Gangster Awadesh Mandal was arrested allegedly for bashing his wife and Bihar’s ruling Janata Dal-United legislator Bima Bharati, who is now undergoing treatment with fractured limbs.

The arrest was made on Wednesday after Bharati lodged a complaint that her husband, a notorious goon and a member of Purnia Zila Parishad, beat her mercilessly at their home at Bihta in Purnia district.

The driver of the gangster was also arrested for brutally beating up the three-time MLA from Rupauli.

Police said five more accomplices of Mandal have been named in the FIR lodged in this connection.

Purnia SP Nayyar Hasnain Khan said the arrest followed a phone call from the MLA, alleging she was mercilessly beaten up by her husband.

Police found Bharti was lying almost unconscious on the bed. with multiple injuries and had her arm and leg fractured.

The lawmaker was admitted to the sadar hospital in the district.

Police suspect that the legislator was always subjected to physical and mental torture by her muscleman husband.

She was thrashed by her husband at her MLA flat in Patna also on Tuesday.

The couple, married in 1990s, have two sons and a daughter.

Mandal has several criminal cases pending against him.

His war of attrition with Shankar Singh, another criminal who unsuccessfully contested the just-concluded assembly elections, resulted in several incidents of mayhem and bloodbath in the area, police said.