AYODHYA: An FIR has been registered against Samajwadi Party’s Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad’s son Ajit Prasad for allegedly kidnapping, threatening, and assaulting a man. Ajit Prasad is the Samajwadi Party candidate for the Milkipur assembly by-election.
According to the complainant, Ravi Tiwari, a local property dealer, Ajit Prasad, one Raju Yadav, and 15-20 unidentified individuals met him near SBI branch in Faizabad on Saturday afternoon, dragged him into their car, and drove him towards Raqaabganj while thrashing him all this while.He alleged that they snatched Rs 1 lakh from him, recorded a video of the incident and threatened to kill him before letting him out.
According to Tiwari, he was brokering a land deal between Ajit Prasad and Sheetla Prasad, a local landowner.
Tiwari later submitted a complaint at the Kotwali police station.
Ashwini Pandey, in-charge of city Kotwali, said that initial investigations found the allegations to be true. Based on investigation, a case has been registered against three named individuals—Ajit Prasad, Raju Yadav, and police constable Shashikant Rai—along with 15 others.
BJP’s IT cell chief Amit Malviya posted on social media that Faizabad MP Awadhesh Prasad, whom Akhilesh Yadav is currently promoting, has a son, Ajit Prasad, who kidnapped and beat Ravi Tiwari. Malviya added that after winning a few seats, the SP’s “series of rapes and hooliganism continues”.
Meanwhile, the sitting SP MP from Faizabad, Awadhesh Prasad, said that the allegations are baseless and politically motivated. He mentioned that the SP is “winning in Milkipur, which is making BJP restless”.
Claiming this to be a fake case, Prasad said that the BJP is trying to shift the public focus away from “a movement against police atrocities in the Raunahi police station area, which led to the death of a person named Dukhiram”.