Samajwadi Party chief and newly elected district panchayat member Dharmendra Yadav was booked for violating the COVID protocol after his supporters took out a procession in Etawah, police arrested him from Auraiya on Monday.
On his launch from jail on June 6, Yadav took half in a procession regardless of the COVID restrictions. He went lacking after a case was registered in opposition to him and 34 of his supporters have been arrested. The police had additionally positioned a reward of Rs 25,000 on him.
“We arrested Dharmendra Yadav from Auraiya district on Monday morning. He was produced in a local court in Etawah and sent to judicial custody,” mentioned circle officer (Etawah) Rajiv Pratap Singh.
Yadav, a resident of Auraiya, is going through 31 circumstances together with homicide and try and homicide. He can be the Yuvjan Sabha chief of Samajwadi Party of Auraiya. After a video of their June 6 procession went viral, 9 policemen have been suspended.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS