Samajwadi Party MLA Shazil Islam and some other party leaders have been booked for allegedly threatening Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and making provocative statements against him, bareilly police said on Monday.
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SP MLA Shazil Islam, the party’s district unit vice president Sanjeev Kumar Saxena and others have been booked on a complaint by Anuj Verma, district in-charge of Hindu Yuva Vahini.
Bareilly’s SSP Rohit Singh Sajwan, The FIR has been lodged at the Baradari police station of Bareilly under sections 504 (disturbing peace), 506 (threatening) and 153A (making provocative statements with intent to incite riots).
According to the complaint of Anuj Verma, Shazil Islam said if the voice comes out from his (Adityanath’s) mouth, our (SP’s) guns will not emit smoke but bullets. Verma lodged the FIR on the basis of the video clip of a news channel.
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However, The MLA, has questioned the veracity of the video clip saying the news channel had doctored his statement.