A day after registering an FIR towards a Samajwadi Party chief and 200 unidentified folks for holding a roadshow in violation of the COVID protocol, the Etawah police on Sunday arrested 34 folks and seized 24 autos.
The individuals and autos arrested on Saturday had been a part of the roadshow, a day after SP chief Dharmendra Yadav was launched from Etawah district jail. Yadav continues to be absconding.
Circle Officer, Etawah, Rajiv Pratap Singh stated, “During the investigation, we conducted raids at several places during which 24 vehicles were seized and 34 people arrested.”
“The accused and the vehicles were identified through the footage of the roadshow. The arrested persons are from Auraiya, Jalaun and Etawah,” Singh stated, including that additional investigation is on to hint the others who had been a part of the roadshow.
Singh stated the police had been additionally attempting to hint the absconding SP chief.
Yadav, a resident of Diviyapur space of Auraiya, has 25 instances registered in his identify, together with homicide instances. He was elected Zilla Panchayat member within the current native physique elections and has additionally held the publish of District President within the Yuvjan Samaj of the get together. He was thrown out by the Auraiya district administration in March this 12 months.
On Saturday, a video went viral on social media during which Yadav, alongside together with his accomplices, was seen strolling in a automobile with over a dozen autos chasing him and shouting slogans in his identify. During preliminary investigation, it was revealed that the video was shot on Saturday itself, a day after he was launched from jail and booked underneath sections of the UP Gangsters Act.
The FIR has been registered underneath varied sections of the IPC and Section 7 of the Criminal Law Amendment Act.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
