BJP MP Subrata Pathak booked for assaulting police personnel | Photograph: Zee Media Bureau
BJP MP from Kannauj Subrata Pathak and 51 others have been booked for allegedly assaulting police personnel, leaving three sub-inspectors and 4 constables injured.
On the criticism of injured Sub Inspector (SI) Hakim Singh, an FIR has been lodged towards 10 named, together with Pathak, and 42 others, Station Home Officer (SHO), Kotwali police station, Ajay Awasthi mentioned.
The injured additionally embrace Sub Inspectors Hemant Kumar, Tarun Singh and constables Rohit Lavania, Subhash Kumar and Neeraj Kumar. All of them have been despatched to the district hospital for medical examination, he mentioned.
In his criticism, the police outpost incharge of Mandi Samiti Hakim Singh mentioned on Friday evening he acquired instruction to assist the Unnao police which had come right here to conduct a raid in reference to a case of kidnapping. The latter held 5 folks from a fitness center.
When the 5 had been being taken to the police outpost, a youth reached there and demanded that each one of them be launched instantly. In addition they tried to free themselves when the Unnao police tried taking them alongside. Within the meantime, one in all them known as BJP chief Subrata Pathak and about quarter-hour later, the MP reached the spot along with his safety personnel Sachet Pandey, the SI mentioned.
As quickly as he bought down from the automotive, the MP requested concerning the in cost and on being indicated in direction of Hakim Singh, he caught maintain of his collar, the sufferer mentioned, including that when colleagues tried to save lots of him, greater than 40 folks attacked them and tore their uniforms as effectively.
When the police from different stations reached the spot, the MP ran away along with his supporters, the complainant added. Efforts are on to achieve out to the MP, mentioned SHO Awasthi.
FIR has been lodged underneath sections 147 (rioting), 148 (mischief with lethal weapon), 332 (obstructing public servant), 353 (obstructing public servant within the efficiency of his responsibility), 504 (intentional insult with intent to impress breach of the peace), 506 (felony intimidation), 427 (inflicting harm to the quantity of Rs 50 or extra) and 225 (try and forcible launch of offender or different particular person from police custody) of the Indian Penal Code and underneath part 7 of the Felony Legislation (Modification) Act, 1932, he added.
Chief of Opposition (LoP) Akhilesh Yadav, in a Tweet, posted that the general public desires to know when will Pathak be arrested. “As we speak’s newest information: Policemen filed FIR towards Kannauj’s BJP MP, Subrata Pathak, public is asking when will he be arrested? Ought to the police save their lives by hiding behind the bulldozers to keep away from these BJP males?” the Samajwadi Celebration chief requested.
