New Delhi: An FIR has been filed against Samajwadi Party (SP) chief Akhilesh Yadav and 20 different social gathering employees on Saturday (March 13) over alleged assault on journalists in Uttar Pradesh’s Moradabad.
The FIR was registered on the premise of a criticism by a journalist at Pakhwara police station late on Friday night time below numerous sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), police officers informed information company PTI.
The SP chief took to Twitter to sentence the Yogi authorities over the FIR filed against him and his social gathering employees. Posting footage of the FIR copy, he wrote, “The UP government has filed an FIR against me which I am sharing here in the interest of the public.”
“If the need arises, we will also install hoardings of the FIR copy in Lucknow,” he added. He additionally referred to as the FIR a “symbol of frustration of the losing BJP”.
उप्र की भाजपा सरकार ने मेरे ख़िलाफ़ जो एफ़आईआर लिखवाई है, जनहित में उसकी प्रति प्रदेश के हर नागरिक के सूचनार्थ यहाँ प्रकाशित कर रहे हैं।
अगर आवश्यकता पड़ी तो राजधानी लखनऊ में होर्डिंग भी लगवा देंगे।
ये एफ़आईआर हारती हुई भाजपा की हताशा का प्रतीक है। pic.twitter.com/50ddRQh0fs
— Akhilesh Yadav (@yadavakhilesh) March 13, 2021
The complainant has alleged that Yadav was rattled by a couple of private questions posed by journalists throughout an interplay with him at a resort on March 11 throughout a press convention. The FIR claimed that the SP chief allegedly incited safety guards and over 20 SP employees to assault the journalists which led to grievous accidents to some of them.
Refuting the allegations, SP MP from Moradabad Syed Tufail Hasan, who was with Yadav through the incident, informed PTI, “Some electronic mediapersons broke the security cordon and fell amid jostling after being stopped by guards. One journalist suffered injuries in his leg and has been sent to a hospital.”
Yadav had expressed grief over the incident, he added.
Meanwhile, PTI reported {that a} counter-FIR has been additionally lodged against the journalists by SP district president Jaiveer Yadav.
The police is investigating the matter, Superintendent of Police Amit Anand mentioned, including that TV and CCTV footage could be examined.
