BJP managed to give an application for lodging an FIR against the Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Dharamveer Singh Yadav even after district authorities made all arrangement to prevent the BJP leaders from reaching Kaanth police station.
Two BJP MlAs Suresh Rana and lokendra Chauhan, reached Kaanth police station and handed over the application for lodging FIR against the SSP and took a receiving from the SHO of their application. However, UP BJP president laxmikant Bajpai, legislature party leader Suresh Khanna, were not allowed to go to the Kaanth police station and they sat on dharna at the DM residence in protest. The application for the FIR of the BJP charges the SSP of unleashing atrocities of the BJP activists arrested during the July 4 clash and alleging violation of the Service rule by the officer by making a political statement against the BJP.
later several BJP leaders including five MPs, 10 MlAs and other leaders were taken in custody and they would be asked to leave Moradabad. Several BJP leaders were also detained in other areas of the state when they were on their way to Moradabad. Bajpai talking to reporters outside DM’s residence in Moradabad said that the party has registered the case against the SSP as they have announced and demanded immediate release of the BJP activists arrested during the July 4 clash. Denying that BJP’s act in Kaanth was related to the
coming assembly by-elections, he said that BJP was concerned about the common people and would not resist to fight for them.