Suresh Mehta is an Indian politician and a member of Rashtriya Janata Dal political party based in Bihar.
The inmates were protesting to get some of their demands fulfilled by prison authorities; it was only after involvement of Mehta that the truce happened.
All of the met Chief Minister Nitish Kumar and joined Janata Dal (United) for a brief period of time.
It was alleged that sons of Mehta assaulted the police party and the engineer who were authorised to evict the illegal occupants from several government flats and houses.
The engineer named R.K Prasad was subsequently threatened by another MLA Ram Das Rai.