Pratapgarh clash: Five FIRs against Pramod Tiwari, Aradhana Mishra
PRAYAGRAJ: Following the clash between supporters of Congress leader Pramod Tiwari and BJP MP Sangamlal Gupta at Sangipur development Block auditorium during the Gareeb Kalyan Mela on Saturday, a total of five cases have been registered by police against Pramod Tiwari, his daughter and MLA from Rampur Khas Aradhana Mishra ‘Mona’ and others.
While one FIR was registered late on Saturday evening on the complaint of the BJP MP at Lalganj police station, another four FIRs too got registered against the Congress leaders and their supporters later in the night by 11.32pm, police said.
SP (East) Prakash Dwivedi said on the basis of complaints received regarding the incident, FIRs have been registered. “Investigation are now being carried out,” he said. The first FIR has been registered on the complaint of BJP MP Sangam Lal Gupta in which he requested that the FIR be registered at Lalganj police station as anti-social elements were present at Sangipur police station and he was unable to go there.
Based on his complaint, a named FIR was registered against 27 people, including Pramod Tiwari, his daughter Aradhana Mishra and Sangipur block pramukh Bablu Singh, besides another 50 unidentified people under relevant sections of IPC for rioting armed with deadly weapons, unlawful assembly, voluntarily causing hurt and endangering human life or personal safety of others etc at Lalganj police station at 7.41pm.
At 9.14pm, another FIR against the Congress leaders and their supporters was also registered on the complaint of a BJP worker Devendra Pratap Singh followed by one more FIR against them at 9.53pm on a complaint of Abhishek Kumar Mishra, son of a woman who had recently contested the panchayat polls followed by another FIR at 10.52pm on a complaint of BDC member Om Prakash Pandey. Later at 11.32pm, another FIR was registered against the Congress leaders and their supporters based on a complaint of police constable Sunil Kumar who was providing security to the BJP MP.
From the side of Congress leader Pramod Tiwari, Sangipur block pramukh Ashok Kumar Singh claimed to have submitted a complaint to the police accusing five named people, including BJP MP Sangam Lal Gupta, and his unidentified supporters accusing them of tearing up government documents, violence and misbehaviour with women in connection with the incident.