Senior Indian ministers Lalu Prasad and Raghuvansh Prasad Singh have literally landed in trouble after a complaint was filed against them for allegedly endangering lives of people by landing a helicopter on a highway, news reports said Friday, according to DPA. A lawyer filed the complaint in a court in the eastern Bihar state on Thursday, claiming that he and a few others were injured in the melee caused by the landing of the helicopter, the Hindu daily reported. Prasad and Singh, India's Railway and Rural Development Minister respectively, were on an aerial survey of flood-hit areas of the state on Wednesday. The court directed senior police officials to investigate the matter and submit a report within a week on how the helicopter landed on the highway without permission from the local administration. The lawyer, Sudhir Ojha, who was riding a motorcycle, said he sustained injuries after he lost control of his vehicle when he saw the approaching helicopter. He alleged that several other vehicles crashed as well. "The pilot will have to tell whether he landed on his own or at the behest of Mr Prasad and Mr Singh because the helicopter had no fault to warrant an emergency landing," he told the Hindu. Ojha has sought action against the ministers under various provisions of the Indian Penal Code pertaining to attempted homicide, danger or obstruction in public way and mischief causing injury to public. Bihar is the worst-hit amongst Indian states which have been affected in the latest wave of floods and heavy monsoon rains across the country. The state accounts for nearly half of the 14 million people displaced or stranded across India since July 27. Floods have led to the closure of educational institutes and disrupted the supply of essential commodities.
