Cross cases were lodged against over two dozen people, including Aam Aadmi Party (AAP)leader Kumar Vishwas and a Congress leader after an altercation between activists of both the parties in Amethi district on Friday evening. The cases were registered with the Peparpur police station.Reports said that senior Congress leader of Amethi, Munna Singh Trisundi, hailing from Peparpur area of Amethi was going on his Innova when AAP leader, Kumar Vishwas, along with over a dozen of his supporters intercepted him at Durgapur area of Amethi on Friday evening. The matter took an ugly turn when Vishwas’s supporters suddenly started hurling abuses at Munna Singh following which he stepped out of the vehicle and objected. This lead to confrontation between the two parties. However, finding himself alone, Munna Singh reportedly somehow left the spot.
Reports further said that later the AAP activists reached Munna Singh’s home at Peparpur and again hurled abused. The matter could be only controlled after local police reached the spot. later on complaint of Munna Singh and one more local villagers, two separate FIR have been registered against Vishwas and his supporters with Peparpur police station..
later Vishwas also turned up and lodged a cross FIR against Munna and his supporters. District Superintendent of Police, Heera lal when contacted he said that necessaryaction would be taken only after a probe. Sources said that the entire confrontation between the two groups were recorded by the electronic media so the police will summon those tapes before initiating any action. Munna Singh also demanded that the cops should see the footage recorded by the media which clearly pointed that how the AAP leader Vishwas and his goons had abused and manhandled him giving him life threats. He accused the AAP leader of creating an atmosphere of anarchy in Amethi and said hisallegations against Congress were baseless. Reacting on the incident, Vishwas said if police do not take action within two days then he would gherao the police station.