Bihar police in search of MLA Anant Kumar Singh

Bihar Police on Friday recovered an AK-47 assault rifle during a raid from the residence of Mokama MLA and strongman Anant Kumar Singh. According to reports, several live bullets and a magazine have also been recovered from the legislator's ancestral home in Nadawan village in Patna district. Singh is an Independent MLA who represents the Mokama Assembly constituency.Once believed to be close to Nitish Kumar, Anant Singh who had twice won the seat for the JDU parted ways with the chief minister a few months ahead of the last Assembly polls when he was arrested in a case of kidnapping and extortion.