Yogendra Sao

Yogendra Sao is an Indian politician who is a leader of the Indian National Congress party. He is a former agriculture minister in the Government of Jharkhand, where under his leadership Jharkhand state got first rank for pulse seed production across India.

He is alleged to have been involved in the killing of 13 villagers in 2001 and of playing football with the heads of the dead. He was arrested on 5 October 2014.

In April 2019 he surrendered at a court in Ranchi, where he was remanded in custody with his conditional bail cancelled, on multiple charges related to rioting and inciting of violence.