Bhartiya Janta Party leaders seemed to be on target radar of their rivals after party’s landslide victory in the parliamentary election. After the murder of BJP leader Vinod Singh Pandit and Omveer Singh in the recent past, the newly-elected BJP MP Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti was allegedly attacked by three persons when she was returning from a ceremony in Fatehpur district but she managed to escape unhurt.
The incident took place last night when the MP was returning from a function at Avas Vikas colony along with her staff.
In her complaint, Niranjan Jyoti alleged that Bhanu Patel along with his three aides attacked her and opened fire on her car. Her gunman Rahul Tiwari sustained serious injuries in the firing from the attackers.locals assembled the scene and challenged the attackers. While the attackers managed to flee the scene, Bhanu Patel was arrested by police later.
Superintendent of Police, Vinod Kumar Singh, said that the attack was executed in a pre-planned manner following an old rivalry. He added that raids were being conducted to nab the other attackers.
Meanwhile, Bhanu Patel lodged a cross FIR alleging BJP MP Sadhvi Niranjan Jyoti and her supporters of looting his belongings and opening fire on him and his staff.
In his FIR, Patel alleged that four to five persons including Hamirpur civic body chairman Kuldeep Nishad opened fire and snatched his gold chain, mobile and purse and assaulted him.
The Superintendent of Police said Patel suffered serious injuries in the assault he had been admitted to hospital. Others who sustained injuries are Sadhvi’s gunner Rahul Tiwari, her supporter Badan Singh and Kuldeep.BJP district unit general secretary Pramod Dwiwedi, however, claimed that the party MP’s supporters were being implicated falsely.
Meanwhile, autopsy report of the slain Uttarakhand BJP leader Rakesh Kumar Rastogi indicated that he was strangled to dead and then his body was put at the rear seat of his car.
Rastogi’s body was recovered from his car from Pachkheda village under Baheri police station area around 11 am on Saturday. After the recovery of the body the cops sent the body fort post-mortem. The autopsy report revealed that Rastogi was strangled to death. “He was also attacked by screw driver at his chest and stomach umpteen times,” the police said.
It surfaced that Rastogi was native of Kitcha police station in Udhampur Nagar district of Uttarakhand and he went missing from his house three days back. The police had started the investigation and also provided the detail of the autopsy report and other investigation to Udhampur police.
It may be mentioned that, a Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) leader, Omveer Singh was shot dead by unidentified assailants riding a motorcycle in Meerapur area in Muzaffarnagar district on June 10.
Singh (55), a former army-man, was returning his home after supervising work in his fields on a motorcycle when he was attacked. Earlier, a couple of days back to the incident a BJP leader, Vijay Pandit, was killed in Dadri of Gautam Buddha Nagar district of the state. BJP workers and leaders had staged demonstration in protest of both the incident demanding immediate arrest of miscreants.