Bettiah. An FIR has been lodged against Vishwa Hindu Parishad leader and deputy mayor’s son Raman Gupta and his brothers and some others under the Dalit Atrocities Act. Brijesh Kumar Baitha, a resident of Chaube Tola in Kumarbagh police station area, has lodged a complaint in the SC-ST police station.
The VHP leader has been accused of using casteist abuses, assaulting and demanding extortion money worth Rs 2 lakh. SHO Rana Prasad said that the FIR has been lodged and the matter is being investigated. Brijesh Kumar Baitha has said in the FIR that he has been authorized to assist junior engineer Sujay Suman as per the orders of the Municipal Corporation.
On July 15, he was getting the drain construction work done under his supervision near Indira Chowk in Ward-13. At the same time, Raman Gupta, resident of Kotwali Chowk Sonarpatti Ward-13, his brother Rohit Kumar Gupta, Rahul Kumar Gupta came in a car with four-five unknown people and stopped the work. Asked to uproot the net. When I asked to call the JE, they started abusing me using casteist slurs and started beating me. They demanded a ransom of Rs. 2 lakhs for allowing the work to be done. Meanwhile, VHP leader Raman Gupta said that large scale irregularities were being done in the construction of the drain. The local ward councillor is my relative. There is a previous family dispute. They are trapping me in a false case in connivance with my opponents. Deputy Mayor Gayatri Devi said that on receiving a complaint of irregularities in the construction of the drain, I myself went there to see it. Some people tried to misbehave there. Hearing this, my sons reached there. Then some people started creating a ruckus. My sons have been implicated in a false case so that voice is not raised against the irregularities.
Courtesy : Hindi News
