KISHANGANJ: Tuesday was not a particularly good day for RJD chief Lalu Prasad with two FIRs being filed against him and the Jharkhand police arresting him in connection with a 2005 case.

While the Kishanganj administration booked him for his verbal attack on BJP leader Varun Gandhi, the second FIR was filed at Garhwa town in Jharkhand over his chopper skipping the helipad and landing at the venue of his rally. His arrest came in a similar offence - landing his helicopter at the venue of his meet in 2005 - but he was released on bail.

In a swift reaction to RJD boss and railway minister Lalu Prasad's inflammatory remarks against BJP's Pilibhit candidate Varun Gandhi at an election rally in this Muslim-dominated constituency of Bihar on Monday, the Kishanganj administration on Tuesday lodged an FIR against Lalu. ( Watch )

"The arrest (of Lalu) would follow if he does not surrender or seek bail," Kishanganj SP Ram Narain Singh clarified before newsmen amid reports by a section of electronic media that he has ordered the arrest of the minister.

The FIR has been lodged under Sections 125 of the Representation of the People Act and 153 IPC, both of which are bailable Sections, the SP said.

Section 153 IPC pertains to making provocative speech with the intent to cause riots and carries a punishment up to six months' imprisonment, legal experts said. "If riots really take place due to the speech, the imprisonment could be stretched to one year with fine," said senior lawyer Bhal Chand Mishra.

Lalu, at the election rally for his party candidate Mohd Taslimuddin at the Ruidhasha ground here on Monday, had said that had he been the Union home minister, he would have let a road-roller over the chest of communal elements like Varun for giving hate speech against Muslims.

"The FIR was ordered after a thorough examination of the CDs of the minister's speech and perusal of the report of the magistrate on duty," said Feraque Ahmad, district magistrate -cum- returning officer of Saran on whose orders civil SDO Khursheed Alam lodged the FIR.