BJP MP booked for land grabbing, rioting in Gorakhpur

However, the accused BJP MP denied the charges claiming that he was not even present on the spot and that it was he who had approached the SSP with the dispute over the said land.

LUCKNOW: BJP MP Kamlesh Paswan, representing Basgaon parliamentary seat in Lok Sabha, has been booked along with his seven accomplices and 20 unidentified persons on charges of land grabbing, rioting and criminal conspiracy at Cant police station in Gorakhpur on Sunday.

“Paswan has been accused of cheating, and land grabbing so Gorakhpur police registered a case against the BJP MP and his aides under Section 147 (rioting), 148, 149, 323, 504, 506 (Criminal intimidation), 427, 447, 120B (criminal conspiracy) IPC,” said Manoj Pathak, SHO, Cant police station. 

He added that the matter was reported following a brawl over a piece of land and searches to nab the accused were on. 

The case was registered on a written application of Asadullah Warsi, son of Mohd Shafqatullah, a resident of Bankatichak area under Rajghat police station. As per complaint, one Nikhat Ara, a resident of Bankatichak gave a piece of land belonging to Asadullah Warsi to one Surendra Prasad, son of Kalicharan, fraudulently in Rustampur area.

On Sunday, when Asadullah was getting a boundary wall constructed on his land, he was attacked by Nikhat Ara’s son Arshad Ali and his accomplices who barged into the land forcibly by demolishing the boundary wall. As per the sources, all the troublemakers had the protection and patronage of BJP MP Kamlesh Paswan.

Moreover, the complainant claimed that the miscreants vandalised the wall on the directions of the BJP MP.

“Vandalism will not be tolerated and no one could be allowed to take law in his own hands. We have got the evidence that close associates of MP Kamlesh Paswan indulged in vandalism on the spot, so the FIR was lodged against him and his aides under various sections of IPC,” said Gorakhpur SSP, Satyarth Aniruddh Pankaj.

However, the accused BJP MP denied the charges claiming that he was not even present on the spot and that it was he who had approached the SSP with the dispute over the said land as some persons were trying to grab it. “I am shocked and I will take the matter forward,” said the two time MP of Bansgaon.

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