Samajwadi Party MLA Thrashes BJP Leader's Husband In Amethi Police Station, Video Goes Viral

A video of the purported incident that has gone viral on the social media shows SP MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh beating up BJP leader Rashmi Singh's husband Deepak Singh as police try to stop him.

A video of the purported incident that has gone viral on the social media shows the SP MLA, in a white kurta, beating up the BJP leader’s husband.

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New Delhi: Samajwadi Party (SP) MLA Rakesh Pratap Singh and his supporters allegedly thrashed Deepak Singh, husband of Rashmi Singh, a BJP municipal election candidate, in a police station in Uttar Pradesh’s Amethi district on Wednesday. A video of the purported incident that has gone viral on the social media shows the SP MLA, in a white kurta, beating up the BJP leader’s husband as police try to stop him.

The incident took place in Gauriganj Kotwali police station in Amethi district. According to a report by news agency PTI, Deepak Singh arrived at the police station and verbally abused Rakesh Pratap while he was sitting on a protest there.

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Rakesh Singh alleged that the BJP workers manhandled his party's supporters and the police have not registered an FIR yet. He also accused Deepak Singh of threatening to kill two Samajwadi Party workers.

According to Rakesh Singh, Mohammad Shamim had lodged a police complained that Deepak Singh threatened him when he used to drive a car of Singh's brother. In another complaint, Banke Bihar Singh said that Deepak Singh forcibly picked him up in his car in Rajgarh and threatened to kill him.

"A conspiracy is being hatched to kill me. I have informed senior police officers about it," PTI quoted Rakesh Singh as saying.

On the other hand, Deepak Singh said that the SP workers pelted stones at him "with the intention of killing him", forcing him to take refuge in the police station where Rakesh Singh and his supporters assaulted him.

Deepak Singh alleged no action has been taken against the SP MLA so far and urged Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath and Amethi MP Smriti Irani to take strict action against the legislator and his supporters.

Meanwhile, Superintendent of Police Elamaran said both the parties confronted each other all of a sudden when they came face to face. "We will take action against whosoever is guilty," he said.