Ranchi: Congress MP Rajo Singh was on July 9 remanded to 14 days judicial custody in connection with the fodder scam case by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) special judge.

The judge, P R Das, ordered the remand after rejecting his bail petition on case No 20/96 and 68/96.

Singh, who was served with arrest warrants on June 17, surrendered in the special CBI court on July 9 morning.

Singh represents Begusarai in the Lok Sabha.

Praying for bail, Singh's counsel J Ray argued that the chargesheet filed by CBI was defective as the investigating agency instead of taking sanction from Lok Sabha Speaker, as the accused was an MP, got it from Bihar Assembly Speaker.

He also alleged that Singh was a victim of political conspiracy and that it was evident from CBI raids in 1996 when nothing was found or recovered from his house.

The CBI counsel B Singh pleaded that there was no defect in the filing of chargesheet as the accused was an MLA when the scam was detected.

PTI