LUCKNOW: Sant Kabir Nagar district police on Saturday slapped a criminal case under SC/ST Act against local Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) MLA for arson and destroying the house of a landless SC farmer.
Reports reaching the DGP headquarters here on Saturday said that BSP MLA from Khetraha Tariq Khan and his brother Iftikhar Khan own a huge farmfield on the outskirts of their constituency. The two had entered into a dispute with a landless farmer Ram Lakhan after he built a thatched hut on a plot of land situated next to the MLA's field.
The Khan brothers were reportedly unhappy with Ram Lakhan and asked him to shift his hut at a distance away from their farm. But Ram Lakhan tried to explain that the piece of land on which he has built his hut belonged to his employer and the MLA had no right to force him away. The situation was resolved when Ram Lakhan approached the local Bakahira police.
However, late on Friday night, Ram Lakhan was fast asleep when miscreants torched his hut. When, he woke up and tried to salvage his belongings from the burning hut, some miscreants thrashed him.
Allegations are that the miscreants were led by Iftikhar Khan, who was joined by his brother Tariq. Lakhan alleged that he was held hostage and forced to watch his hut being reduced to ashes. The miscreants also threw other belongings which were lying outside the hut, into the flames, leaving him with the only clothes he was wearing.
Lakhan lodged an FIR, accusing the two brothers and their associates as accused. After a preliminary inquiry into the allegations levelled against the MLA, his brother and others confirmed that the charges were not totally baseless, police registered a case against the Khan brothers and their accomplices with charges of arson, violence and unprovoked attack, resulting in loss of property. The police also slapped charges under sections of Criminal Law Amendment Act on the accused.
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