Political storm was created in the State after a mine owner was threatened by BJP MlA of Bhind to implicate him in a murder case and would whip him, after the mine owner failed to pay the terror amount to BJP MlA. The incident came to fore after the mine owner came out with the recorded voice of the legislator. The audio of the conversation in which the mine owner was abused and demanded the money was also released by the mine owner.
The victim Abhinendra Singh Chouhan claimed that Mineral Corporation has provided him contract of four mines including Ojha mine at Sindh River and has deposited around Rs1 crore as security and have to deposit Rs30 lakh per month to the company. After the work was started, Kushawa’s supporters came and told him that he had to visit the MlA, who said that terror amount has to be paid if they had to work and the amount would be Rs4 lakh per month and the cash was paid for four months, which were given on 20th day of the every month.
When the payment was made for two months, Chouhan failed to pay the money on time and on the next day, Kushwaha called him and abused him. Kushwaha has defended and said that Ramlakhan Singh, who lost the Parliament election is involved in illegal sand mining with the help of Town Inspector Dhananjay and after he had raised questions, the sand mafia turned hostile.
The audio is around seven-month-old in which the earlier mine owner had made the villagers partner and have paid Rs4 lakh each to the partner, but later the partners turned hostile after which the owner returned Uttar Pradesh and Chouhan was provided the mines, who started the work without providing money to the villagers and Kushwaha was trying to make him understand in local language that he should pay the villagers.