Close on heels of efforts to kidnap and threaten the sister of Union Minister Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi, a BJP legislator’s house was attacked by unidentified miscreants in Ferozabad on Tuesday night.
As per reports, unidentified miscreants raided the house of BJP MlA Manish Aseeja in Uttar police station area of the district, before breaking windowpanes, firing and fleeing from the spot.
Earlier, Samajwadi Party leaders led by local MP Akshay Yadav had staged a demonstration and demanded action against the BJP legislator, after Manish Aseeja threatened a senior Municple Corporation official on Tuesday.
The police claimed to have registered a case and were looking into the matter.
Meanwhile, ruling BJP leaders also created trouble for the law enforcing agencies by holding a massive demonstration in front of a police station in Badaun and freed an accused arrested by the police.
A Non-Bailable Warrant was issued against a member of BJP local unit in Badaun. Personnel from City Kotwali in Badaun arrested the accused and put him in the police station lock-up on Tuesday evening.
Upon learning of the arrest, senior members of the BJP district unit ghearoed the police station and demanded the release of the accused. When the cops refused, the protesters hurled abuses on the cops and threatened to get them sacked for daring to arrest a BJP functionary.
Finding the situation billowing out of hands, local officers reached the police station and set the accused free without making any entry in the police station record. The supine officers even apologised to the crowd for arresting the BJP leader.