The police arrested a youth leader, reportedly of NSUI (National Students Union of India), with a pistol for breaking the security cordon of Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s Kisan Yatra in Faizabad on Thursday night.
As per reports, members of the security protocol spotted a youth possessing a pistol trying to break the cordon and to reach closer to Rahul Gandhi as the Congress leader entered Sahadatganj locality on Gonda-Faizabad border of Faizabad on Thursday night.
The youth was immediately taken into custody and taken to the Cantonment Police station in Faizabad for questioning.
Identified as Man Bhadur Singh of Mainpur hamlet of Nawabganj (Gonda), the youth claimed that he was the Gonda District chief of NSUI. The youth was later booked under pertinent sectiosn of the IPC and was sent to jail on Friday.