Four persons, including the leader of Opposition in the the Bhopal Municipal Corporation and a Congress corporator, were booked by Aishbagh police for assault and threatening for life during a meeting of Congress party workers near Pul Bogdha area.
An ugly fight was witnessed during a Congress corporators’ meeting on October 19 near Pul Bogdha under Aishbagh police station area.
According to the City Superintendent of Police Jehangirabad Saleem Khan a case was registered after Shaikh Mohammad Saleem lodged a complaint against the leader of Opposition in the BMC and Congress coporator Mohammad Sageer.
In the compliant the victim has claimed that during the meeting he had a heated exchange of words with Sageer which turned physical and he was attacked by Sageer and few others. They also threatened to kill him and after thrashing him brutally escaped the spot. later he filed a complaint with the Aishbagh police station.
Based on the complaint the police after preliminary investigation registered a complaint against four persons including Congress corporator Sageer.
CSP Saleem was not able to provide what went wrong during the meeting and is being investigated. No arrest has been made in the case so far and the investigations are on.
The police have registered a case under Section 294,323,506 and 34 of the IPC and have started further investigation.