Uttar Pradesh: A youth slapped the executive officer of the Nagar Panchayat who had gone to remove encroachment in Banda Nagar of Shahjahanpur

SDM Puwaiyan Sanjay Pandey, CO Nishtha Upadhyay led the Nagar Panchayat Banda on Friday to remove encroachment in the city market. The Nagar Panchayat team reached Banda square of the city with the police and administrative staff to remove encroachment, then Rahul Singh, the provincial co-convenor of Bajrang Dal Vishwa Hindu Parishad of Braj province, standing at his shop at the main square, accused the Nagar Panchayat Executive Officer Satyendra Prakash of discrimination in the name of removing encroachment and unnecessarily harassing small shopkeepers, saying that if the Nagar Panchayat administration has to remove encroachment, then no discrimination should be done with any shopkeeper and they should have been given notice before removing the encroachment. On this, Executive Officer Satyendra Prakash got angry and started abusing. On which his brother protested, Executive Officer Satyendra Prakash behaved rudely with him and slapped him. After which the crowd present on the spot along with the brother of Bajrang Dal’s provincial co-convenor Rahul Singh caught hold of Executive Officer Satyendra Prakash and slapped him several times one after the other. Seeing the beating of Nagar Panchayat Executive Officer Satyendra Prakash who misbehaved with Bajrang Dal’s State Coordinator, CO Nishtha Upadhyay, SDM Sanjay Pandey and Thana Pradhikaran Soni Shukla reached the spot. By then the mob had beaten up Satyendra Prakash thoroughly. The fight between the Bajrang Dal leader’s brother and the EO created a ruckus in the area. After this, the police caught Bajrang Dal leader Rahul Singh’s brother and took him to the police station. On which the VHP Bajrang Dal leaders also reached the police station. But the police made them sit in the car and took them somewhere else.