Gopalganj, May 16 -- District and Session Judge -III cum special judge MP and MLA court Friday refused to grant no coercive action against ruling JDU MLA from Mokama Assembly seat Anant Singh on his arrest and called for an up-to-date diary and lower court record.

While hearing the anticipatory bail application of Singh and Bhojpuri singer Gunjan Singh, the special judge Rajendra Kumar Pandey denied interim relief to the MLA from arrest and directed the prosecution to produce the case diary and lower court record.

The matter would be heard again on May 20.

The case pertains to an FIR registered at Mirganj police station, in which JD(U) MLA Anant Singh, Bhojpuri artist Gunjan Singh and seven others have been named as accused.

The FIR is ...