Gaya Road Rage: JD(U) MLC Manorama Devi’s Bail Plea Rejected

• The bail petition of jailed JD(U) MLC Manorama Devi, mother of the prime accused in the Gaya road rage case, was rejected on Thursday by a local court in Gaya district.
• Devi’s counsel pleaded for bail on the ground that she neither drinks nor was caught drinking by the police during the raid at her residence during search for her absconding son Rocky Yadav last week.
  
• Manorama Devi was booked under the Excise Act after liquor bottles were recovered from her residence subsequent to which she went into hiding for a couple of days before surrendering in a court on May 16. She was then sent to 14 days of judicial remand.
  

(With agency inputs)