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  • UP Police official suspended in Pratapgarh BJP MP assault case

    By PTI

    LUCKNOW: A police official has been suspended following Saturday’s incident in which BJP MP Sangam Lal Gupta had accused former Congress MP Pramod Tiwari of leading a mob of his party’s workers to beat him up and his party’s activists during a social function Pratapgarh district.

    Lalganj Circle Officer Jagmohan Singh has been suspended for laxity in duty, Additional Director General of Police (Law and Order) Prashant Kumar said on Sunday.

    In a statement issued here, Additional Chief Secretary (Home) Awanish Awasthi said that additional director general of police (administration) in his report had mentioned that Circle Officer Singh did not arrange adequate police force at the venue of the important programme — Gareeb Kalyan Mela — in Sangipur block in Pratapgarh.

    Due to this a serious law and order situation emerged, the statement said.

    Citing the report, he added that it is clear from it that the circle officer showed laxity and inaction in discharge of duty, which is not expected from a gazetted police officer.

    This has tarnished the image of the government and the department.

    Hence, he has been suspended with immediate effect and departmental action has been initiated against him, Awasthi said.

    BJP’s Pratapgarh MP Gupta on Saturday accused former Congress MP Tiwari of leading a mob of his party workers to beat him up and his party’s activists during a the function in Sangipur block.

    The issue prompted police to register a case against 27 persons, including the senior Congress leader and his daughter.

    The alleged incident led Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to order the district administration to take strict action in the incident, in which Gupta alleged his ‘kurta’ was also torn by the assailants.

    “Instructions have been issued for speedy and strict action in the incident of attack on BJP MP and national general secretary of BJP’s Pichhda Varg Morch Sangam Lal Gupta during the Gareeb Kalyan Mela in Sangipur block in Pratapgarh district,” Maurya had said in a tweet on Saturday.

    Acting Superintendent of Police Prakash Dwivedi said that acting on the complaint lodged by the BJP MP, a case has been registered against 27 persons including Pramod Tiwari, his daughter Aradhana Misra and 50 unknown persons under various sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Criminal Law (Amendment) Act.

  • Ex-Congress MP Pramod Tiwari among 27 booked for beating up BJP Pratapgarh MP Sangam Lal Gupta in UP

    By PTI

    PRATAPGARH: BJP’s Pratapgarh MP Sangam Lal Gupta on Saturday accused former Congress MP Pramod Tiwari of leading a mob of his party workers to beat him up and his party’s activist during a social function in Sangipur block of the district.

    The issue prompted the police to register a case against 27 persons, including the senior Congress leader and his daughter.

    The alleged incident led Uttar Pradesh Deputy Chief Minister Keshav Prasad Maurya to order the district administration to take strict action in the incident, in which Gupta alleged his ‘kurta’ was also torn by the assailants.

    “Instructions have been issued for speedy and strict action in the incident of attack on BJP MP and national general secretary of BJP’s Pichhda Varg Morch Sangam Lal Gupta during the Gareeb Kalyan Mela in Sangipur block in Pratapgarh district,” said Maurya in a tweet.

    “Not even a single guilty person will be spared,” he added.

    Acting Superintendent of Police Prakash Dwivedi said that acting on the complaint lodged by the BJP MP, a case has been registered against 27 persons including Pramod Tiwari, his daughter Aradhana Misra and 50 unknown persons under various sections of the IPC and CLA.

    Citing the complaint lodged by Gupta, the acting Superintendent of Police said that as the BJP MP reached the venue of the Gareeb Kalyan Mela, Pramod Tiwari, his daughter and Congress MLA Aradhana Misra (who were already present at the venue) along with their supporters started raising slogans against him, and even assumed an attacking posture.

    As Sangipur SHO Tushardutt Tyagi rushed to save Gupta, Pramod Tiwari and his workers attacked him, Gupta said, adding that Congress MLA Misra along with her supporters hurled abuses at him, and pounced on him with the intention to kill him.

    The BJP MP added that the security personnel somehow managed to bring him out (from the attackers grip), but at the behest of Misra, her supporters started beating him using stones and sticks, due to which he and his supporters got injured.

    Around a dozen vehicles have been damaged, he claimed.

    Gupta told PTI that the incident happened when he and his party workers reached the ”mela” venue in Sangipur, where ex-Congress MP Tiwari was sitting on the dais.

    “Seeing me at the venue, Tiwari and his supporters first began hooting at me and our workers. Later, they grew violent and attacked us,” he said.

    “They beat me up too and tore my kurta,” he said.

    The former Congress MP could not be contacted for comments despite repeated attempts by PTI.