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High-profile brawl: Cops root for truce
POLICE ARE making all-out efforts to appease influential complainants in connection with a brawl between senior IAS officer Prashant Trivedi?s driver and a Union minister?s nephew.
POLICE ARE making all-out efforts to appease influential complainants in connection with a brawl between senior IAS officer Prashant Trivedi’s driver and a Union minister’s nephew.
Senior police officials are trying to ‘convince’ both the complainants to settle for a compromise and withdraw their complaints. A group of police officials has been assigned the job of resolving the issue soon.
The Hussainganj station house officer, who is probing the allegation levelled by Lucknow Vikas Manch president Kailash Pandey, said he visited the spot and found no evidence of any such incident having taken place.
Pandey had alleged that Trivedi’s driver and his goons had attacked him at his Purana Qila office on Wednesday afternoon. But, the SHO claimed he had recorded statements of local residents and all of them denied having witnessed any such incident.
The SHO further said efforts were on to ascertain whether there was any truth to Pandey’s allegation that Trivedi had threatened him on the phone.
The SHO said he had sought call details from the mobile phone company.
Senior superintendent of police GK Goswami had transferred two sub-inspectors for misbehaving with the minister’s relatives on July 31.
The minister’s nephew Mohit Garg and Trivedi’s driver Praveen Yadav had a tiff on July 29. This happened after Yadav had hit Mohit’s car. Yadav had lodged a complaint with the Hazratganj police. Mohit’s acquaintance Kailash Pandey made a complaint to the Hussainganj police against Trivedi and his driver.
