Bareilly: A worker of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), identified as Jitendra Rastogi, was arrested for allegedly assaulting a woman, the police said on Sunday. He is a resident of Khwaja Qutub at Biharipur in Bareilly district of Uttar Pradesh. The woman Anuradha Rastogi lodged a complaint at the city police station against Jitendra on July 31 for allegedly assaulting her.
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Earlier, Jitendra Rastogi, who was the state general secretary of Uttar Pradesh Udyog Vyapar Mandal, was expelled from the organisation. According to the president of the BJP’s city unit M Arora, Jitendra Rastogi is only a party worker.