PATNA, Dec. 16 -- The bail petition of jailed Janata Dal (United) MLA and Mokama muscleman Anant Singh was on Tuesday rejected by the special MP-MLA court of additional district and session judge (ADJ) Dhananjay Kumar Mishra. Singh was arrested and sent to jail in connection with the murder of 75-year-old Dularchand Yadav during the assembly election.

He won the election from behind the bars in Beur Jail. A five-time MLA from Mokama, he won the assembly election by a margin of 28,206 votes against RJD's Veena Devi (wife of another don Surajbhan Singh), who got 63,210 votes.

The court also rejected the anticipatory bail petitions of Anant's nephew Rajveer Singh and Karmveer Singh, both of whom are named accused in the murder case and are...