Patna: A Bihar court has issued non-bailable arrest warrants against Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Lok Sabha member, Kirti Azad and others in connection with a case relating to storming the office of Mithila Regional Electricity Board during their agitation for ensuring proper electricity in Darbhanga town.

The electricity board deputy general manager, Madan Prasad had on May 23, 2001 lodged a first information report (FIR) with the town police station in Darbhanga alleging that Azad, BJP's Darbhanga town president, Sanjay Sarawagi along with several other party activists stormed the board office, indulged in vandalism, misbehaved with an executive engineer and obstructed work.

Darbhanga town police station officials confirmed on September 30 that a district court had recently issued non-bailable arrest warrants against Azad, Sarwagi and others in the Case No 66/01 in which several other BJP activists are named accused.

We are taking appropriate steps to execute the arrest warrants, they claimed.

PTI