Pratapgarh, 23 Sept: Three Samajwadi Party leaders were booked on Saturday in Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh district for reportedly attempting to extort Rs 10 lakh from a party member and threatening him.
On Friday, a FIR was filed at Kotwali police station against SP district president Chavinath Yadav, general secretary Abdul Qadir Jilani, acting president Gulshan Yadav, and many unnamed individuals under IPC sections 386 (extortion by exhibiting fear) and 506 (criminal intimidation). Chavinath Yadav is now being held at the Kaushambi prison in connection with a crime.
According to Additional Superintendent of Police (East), Vidyasagar Mishra said, Javed Akhtar, a Samajwadi Party (SP) politician and counsel has complained that he was summoned to a Pratapgarh court on September 12 to meet Chavinath Yadav.
Chavinath Yadav and Jilani, according to Akhtar, sought Rs 10 lakh from him. A few days later, several unknown persons approached him and said that SP acting district president Gulshan Yadav had ordered them to collect Rs 10 lakh from him and threatened to murder him if he did not comply.
The officer stated that the situation was being investigated.
