A bunch of armed males allegedly demolished an under-construction boundary wall on the property of former Uttar Pradesh minister Rangnath Mishra right here and demanded ₹5 lakh to permit the work to proceed, officers mentioned on Saturday.
Police have registered an FIR and initiated an investigation into the incident, they mentioned.
Mishra, a BJP chief who served as a Cupboard minister underneath the governments of Kalyan Singh and Ram Prakash Gupta, was establishing the boundary wall on a plot measuring over two bighas in Lalanagar in Gopiganj, in keeping with the grievance filed by his son, Manmoham Mishra.
Within the grievance, Manmohan alleged {that a} group of armed males arrived on the website, demolished the partially constructed wall, and chased away labourers, warning them in opposition to persevering with the work. The accused allegedly demanded ₹5 lakh to permit the development of the wall.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Abhimanyu Manglik mentioned the incident reportedly befell on February 26.
Based mostly on the grievance, an FIR was registered on the night of February 27 on the Gopiganj police station in opposition to Bhagwati Singh, his two sons, Dharmendra Kumar Singh and Krishna Kumar Singh, and 4 unidentified people, he mentioned.
The SP mentioned police are additionally trying into the demand for safety made by Mishra’s household.
