Patna, Feb. 7 -- Independent MP Rajesh Ranjan alias Pappu Yadav, was arrested late Friday in connection with a three-decade-old cheating and fraud case, police said.

Police said that Yadav was arrested in a cheating, fraud and threatening case from his Mandiri-based residence in Patna. Yadav was taken from his Mandiri residence in Patna and underwent medical tests at the Indira Gandhi Institute of Medical Sciences, officials added.

" Pappu Yadav had taken a building on rent by keeping its owner in dark to run activities of his party there in Gardanibagh locality of Patna in the year 1995," police officials said.

Police officials said that one Shailendra Prasad had rented the house in his own name, but the owner later discovered that Papp...