In a string of incidents in the recent past, these public representatives have been charged with murder, extortion, attempt to murder and other such crimes.
Some MLAs in Uttar Pradesh appear to be more busy committing crimes than doing their jobs.
In a string of incidents in the recent past, these public representatives have been charged with murder, extortion, attempt to murder and other such crimes.
On Sunday, Ajay Rai, independent MLA from Kolasla (Varanasi) was arrested for trying to set local trader Bhanu Pratap Singh afire in a property dispute. Rai, originally from the BJP, had contested the Lok Sabha election on a Samajwadi Party (SP) ticket, and the assembly byelection as an independent. Rai, who already has an impressive criminal record, has been charged under the Gangster Act in the latest incident.
In an even more horrific incident, an SP MLA from Maharajganj in eastern UP, set his paramour afire because of the suspicion that she was having an affair with someone else. The MLA fled to neighbouring Nepal. The woman could not be saved and the MLA is now in Gorakhpur jail.
Yashpal Rawat, independent MLA from Sahjanwa (Gorakhpur), is absconding after allegedly killing Vijay Rawat, whom he suspected to be part of the gang which had murdered his (Yashpal’s) father several years ago.
Similarly, BJP legislator from Shahabad in Rampur district of west UP, Kanshiram Diwakar, is facing charges for attempt to murder and extortion. Bareilly-based trader Narendra Singh has lodged an FIR alleging that the MLA threatened to kill him after a dispute over the ownership of an SUV. Singh had stated in the FIR that the MLA’s son had offered to buy his Tata Safari but later took it away forcibly. He alleged he was being threatened by the MLA and his men after he demanded the money due to him.
A BSP minister has also joined the league of criminal MLAs with an FIR for demanding a whopping Rs50 lakh dowry for his son’s marriage. The FIR, naming sports minister and BSP legislator from Allahabad Ayodhya Pal, his son and other family members as accused, has been lodged at Chitrakoot police station.
Plaintiff Prabal Pratap Pal has alleged that the minister married off his son to another girl after he refused to pay the dowry.
He also alleged that he was being threatened with dire consequences if he pursued the case.
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