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SP, BJP supporters get into brawl on police station premises in Amethi
A video of the purported incident surfaced online, showing the Samajawadi Party legislator slapping Deepak Singh, husband of BJP candidate for the post of Nagar Palika chairperson
LUCKNOW A day before the second phase of UP civic polls, Samajwadi Party’s Gauriganj MLA Rakesh Singh and his supporters allegedly got into a brawl with Deepak Singh, husband of BJP candidate for the post of Nagar Palika chairperson Rashmi Singh, on the Gauriganj police station premises in Amethi on Wednesday.
A video of the purported incident surfaced online, showing the SP legislator slapping Deepak Singh. Rakesh Pratap Singh is SP MLA from Gauriganj assembly of Amethi while Deepak Kumar Singh’s wife Rashmi Singh is the BJP candidate for chairperson’s post of Gauriganj Municipal Council.
SP (Amethi) Elamaran G said said the brawl happened between the two groups led by the SP MLA and Deepak Kumar Singh when they came face to face at the police station’s entrance around 11am. “The police have registered an FIR on the complaint by Deepak Kumar Singh and are probing the matter. We will take action as per the findings of the investigation,” he said.
In the complaint, Deepak Kumar Singh alleged that MLA Rakesh Singh, his three brothers, Umesh Pratap Singh, Dinesh Pratap Singh and Suresh Pratap Singh, MLA’s son Alkendra Singh, Suresh Pratap’s son Ramendra Singh, Dinesh Pratap’s son Arunendra Pratap Singh and other aides attacked him when his motorcade reached at the entrance.
However, Samajwadi Party MLA Rakesh Singh alleged that BJP workers manhandled his party’s supporters and the police had not registered an FIR in the matter. He also accused Deepak Singh of threatening to kill two SP workers.
A police official confirmed that the cops registered an FIR under IPC sections 147 (for rioting), 148 (rioting, armed with deadly weapons), 149 (offence committed in prosecution of common object), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 336 (act so rashly or negligently as to endanger human life), 352 (use of criminal force to any person), 427 (for mischief causing damage) and 506 (criminal intimidation) in the matter.
