CJM orders FIR against minister Chaurasia
VARANASI: Chief judicial magistrate, Mirzapur, on Thursday ordered lodging of an FIR against UP minister for basic education Kailash Chaurasia and two others in an assault case. CJM Rajesh Bharadwaj’s order came on a plea by RTO, Mirzapur Chunni Lal, who accused the minister and his aides of assaulting him at the minister’s office on June 12. The RTO had earlier lodged a written complaint against Chaurasia and his aides at Katra police station. However, when no action was taken he filed a case in the CJM’s court.
VARANASI: Chief judicial magistrate, Mirzapur, on Thursday ordered lodging of an FIR against UP minister for basic education Kailash Chaurasia and two others in an assault case.
CJM Rajesh Bharadwaj’s order came on a plea by RTO, Mirzapur Chunni Lal, who accused the minister and his aides of assault- ing him at the minister’s office on June 12. The RTO had earlier lodged a written complaint against Chaurasia and his aides at Katra police station. However, when no action was taken he filed a case in the CJM’s court. According to the Lal, clerk Dinesh Malaviya, an RTO staffer, was transferred outside Mirzapur, allegedly on the minister’s complaint of corruption against him.
However, the clerk obtained a stay order from the high court and went to office to resume charge.
The RTO claimed that when the minister came to know about it, he summoned him to his office on June 12 and pressurised him not to allow the clerk to rejoin.
Lal said when he expressed his helplessness due to the high court order, the minister and his aides assaulted him. It may be mentioned that recently the district judge, Mirzapur had absolved Chaurasia of the charge of thrashing a postman. The minister was awarded three years’ imprisonment on Feb 28 last but was released by the court on bail and personal bond. CJM Bharadwaj had sentenced the minister in connection with a case registered against him by a postman, Krishna Dev Tripathi. Tripathi had alleged in his FIR, that when he had gone to deliver a letter at Chaurasia’s home he misbehaved with him.