The STF group discovered Pandey responsible and arrested him on Friday from close to Bhitaria of Ram Sanehi Ghat police station. (Representative Image: News18)
The FIR additionally named 5 others who have been arrested, the assertion stated, including that two of them are out on bail presently
The Uttar Pradesh Police has arrested former Shiv Sena MLA Pawan Pandey in reference to a case of dishonest and forgery from Barabanki district, an official assertion stated.
Champa Devi had registered a case alleging that after her husband died in 2020, Pandey and his associates, with the intention to seize her land price Rs 8 crore, gave an intoxicating injection to her son, Ajay Singh, and bought a faux settlement made, exhibiting Rs 20 lakh because the land’s worth, the Special Task Force (STF) that arrested Pandey stated.
She additionally alleged that later an software was moved to get the identify of a lady entered into her household register exhibiting her as Ajay Singh’s spouse and a faux marriage certificates was additionally submitted, it stated.
On October 23, 2020, Devi’s son died in a street accident.
An FIR was filed in opposition to Pandey final yr in Akbarpur Kotwali below sections 419 (dishonest by impersonation), 420 (dishonest), 467 (forging paperwork), 471 (utilizing cast paperwork as real) and 120-B (felony conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code, it stated.
The FIR additionally named 5 others who have been arrested, the assertion stated, including that two of them are out on bail presently.
Later, bail petitions have been filed in the Lucknow bench of Allahabad High Court by two accused on totally different grounds and taking cognizance of the matter, the High Court handed an order on May 19, 2023, to get the matter investigated by STF.
According to the assertion, the STF group discovered Pandey responsible and arrested him on Friday from close to Bhitaria of Ram Sanehi Ghat police station space of Barabanki district.
STF stated that about 90 instances are registered in opposition to Pandey in a number of police stations, together with Ambedkar Nagar, Prayagraj, Lucknow and Mumbai. STF lodged the arrested accused in Kotwali Akbarpur, Ambedkar Nagar and despatched him to jail after finishing the authorized course of.
In 1991, Pandey was elected as MLA from Shiv Sena from Akbarpur Assembly seat.
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