A police case has been registered in opposition to former Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) youth wing leader in Uttar Pradesh’s Farrukhabad after a video exhibiting him allegedly threatening and hurling abuses at a police sub-inspector (S-I) surfaced on social media final week, police have confirmed.
Amit Thakur, who was the occasion’s district vice chairman in Farrukhabad, was relieved of his put up final Thursday for “tarnishing” the occasion’s picture after the video surfaced on-line.
In the meantime, police mentioned the S-I who was threatened had gone to the spot in response to a grievance relating to a conflict and subsequent trade of fireside between two teams engaged in unlawful mining.
“We now have registered an FIR in opposition to Amit Thakur and others. The Particular Operation Group and different police groups are conducting raids for their arrest,” Farrukhabad superintendent of police (SP) Vikas Kumar mentioned, including sections 147 (rioting), 504 (insult supposed to impress breach of peace), 506 (prison intimidation) and 332 (voluntarily inflicting damage to discourage public servant from his obligation) had been among the many expenses invoked in opposition to the accused.
Additionally, the police have introduced a money reward of ₹25,000 on Thakur and ₹15,000 every on three different accused, the SP added.
S-I Surjit Kumar, who was threatened by Thakur, reportedly mentioned he and a constable had gone to the Central Jail Intersection on Etawah-Bareilly Freeway following info of a conflict between two teams on the night time of August 21.
When the police official intervened to regulate the scenario, one of many two teams turned on him. Within the video, Thakur may be heard saying: “Yeh Mulayam Singh ki sarkar nahi hain, daroga ji. Yeh Bharatiya Janata Social gathering ki sarkar hai… bhoot most important tumhara bana dunga… (This isn’t Mulayam Singh’s authorities. That is the Bharatiya Janata Social gathering’s authorities. We are going to beat you to a pulp.”
Other than Thakur, the three different accused within the case are Ashish Pratap Singh alias Sachin from Amritpur, Manu Chaturvedi and Anshul Mishra (each from the Kotwali space of the district).
Responding to the incident, Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha district president Mayank Bundela mentioned the choice to take away Thakur from workplace was taken on the instructions of the highest occasion management as Thakur’s conduct maligned the occasion’s picture.