Corporator, brother held for assault in Lucknow
Lucknow, Nov. 7 -- A corporator and his brother were arrested on Friday for allegedly assaulting a man who had accompanied his wife to the corporator's office to seek help in obtaining an income certificate, police said.
A video purportedly showing the assault had circulated on social media earlier.
The alleged incident took place on Wednesday at the office of ward-4 corporator Ramu Das Kanaujia in Daud Nagar under the Madiyaon police station limits. An FIR was registered on Thursday against four people, including three unidentified accused and one named person, under sections 115(2), 351(2) and 352 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS). Kanaujia is among those named in the FIR.
Madiyaon station house officer Shivanand Mishra confirmed the arrests. "The corporator and his brother were arrested on Friday and sent to jail," he said.
Complainant Geeta Bajpai, a resident of Vishnu Vihar Colony in Faizullaganj who previously lived in Lahoreganj, Daliganj, said she had visited the office with her husband, Vijay Bajpai, for assistance with an income certificate.
According to her complaint, the corporator refused to help, citing the address recorded on her Aadhaar card. When she questioned the refusal, he allegedly abused and pushed her. Geeta alleged that when her husband intervened, the corporator, his brother and two others surrounded him and beat him with sticks and a whip.
The couple were also allegedly threatened with death if they complained to the police....
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