Ex-UP minister Swami Prasad Maurya’s son taken for questioning by police

By PTI

GORAKHPUR: The son of former UP minister Swami Prasad Maurya, combating from the Fazilnagar meeting constituency as a Samajwadi Party candidate, was on Wednesday taken to the police station for questioning on the allegation that he was distributing cash to individuals on the eve of polling.

Kushinagar District Magistrate S Rajalingam gave this info whereas denying Mauray’s declare that his son Ashok Maurya was arrested in a “false” case of instigating violence in opposition to BJP supporters.

DM Rajalingam denied the allegation saying Maurya’s son has been taken to the police station just for questioning after allegedly being discovered distributing cash to voters on the eve of voting within the space.

“The information of arrest is totally wrong. We got information in the evening that Swami’s son is distributing money and campaigning and he along with some others were found on the spot in three vehicles and police took him to the police station,” the DM mentioned.

“He is not a voter of the area and what he was doing there within 48 hours of the poll is a clear violation of the Model Code of Conduct,” the DM mentioned, including he has been taken to the police station just for questioning.

“The information of arrest is wrong. A probe has been initiated in the matter,” the DM mentioned.

Maurya, a former Cabinet colleague of UP Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, made the declare of his son’s arrest in a social media publish quickly after two cross-FIR had been lodged by the Kushinagar police on Wednesday on complaints by his occasion supporters and people of BJP candidate Surendra Singh Kushwaha.

In the FIR and the counter-FIR, every of the 2 sides has alleged assault on it by the opposite facet.

The FIR lodged on the criticism of the BJP facet accused former UP minister Maurya, his daughter Sanghmitra Maurya, a BJP MP, and son Ashok Maurya of main and instigating their supporters to assault the individuals of a saffron occasion’s ballot procession, police mentioned.

The second FIR lodged by Maurya’s supporters made comparable allegations in opposition to Kushwaha, block head Vashisht Rai alias Guddu Rai and others, police mentioned.

The two FIRs collectively named 39 individuals from each facet and tons of of different unidentified individuals in them, the police mentioned.

Both sides accused one another of a deliberate assault and based mostly on their written complaints, FIRs had been lodged in opposition to 39 named individuals, together with 25 of Maurya’s facet and 14 belonging to the BJP facet in addition to tons of of different unnamed individuals of each side, police mentioned.

“Based on written complaints from both sides, FIRs have been lodged under sections 147, 148, 171-F, 308, 323, 352, 392, 427, 504, 506 of the Indian Penal Code,” Kushinagar Superintendent of Police Sachindra Patel mentioned.

These sections respectively pertain to rioting, rioting utilizing lethal weapons, exercising undue affect throughout elections, making an attempt culpable murder, inflicting damage, utilizing felony drive, committing theft, inflicting mischief, breaching the peace and issuing threats.