SP MP booked for 'derogatory' remarks on Maya
Express News Service Posted online: Thursday , Apr 08, 2010 at 0248 hrs
Lucknow : The Saharanpur police lodged an FIR against former Samajwadi
Party MP Rashid Masood on Wednesday, for his alleged derogatory
remarks against Chief Minister Mayawati, made during a rally on
Tuesday.
Masood has been booked under Sections 188, 189 and 505 of the IPC,
which includes disobedience to order duly promulgated by the public
servant, threat of injury to public servant and statement causing
public mischief.
The FIR has been lodged at Kutubsher police station in Saharanpur city
by Station Officer Muneesh Kumar.
Masood, however, denied all allegations. "It is an act of political
vendetta against me and my family. During the last three years, over
three dozen cases have been lodged against me and my relatives,
including my wife and daughter-in-law," he said.
"I did not say anything unparliamentarily or disrespectful about the
chief minister. I just referred to a popular Urdu phrase explaining
why I have no intention of meeting Mayawati, because a BSP leader had
recently conveyed to me that all my problems would end if I met her,"
he added.
"Ever since Mayawati came to power in 2007, the UP government has
unleashed a reign of terror against me and my family. We are under
pressure to join the Bahujan Samaj Party," Masood alleged.
According to Masood, the state government had upgraded the Saharanpur
Nagarpalika to Nagar Nigam only to remove his nephew Imran Masood, who
was the chairman there. Earlier, the government had removed Imran, but
its action was stayed by the High Court, Masood added.
Jagdish Singh Rana, BSP MP from Saharanpur, denied that Masood was
being victimised.
Rana, once an acolyte of Masood, was a Cabinet minister in the
Samajwadi Party-led government from 2003 to May 2007. He later
switched sides, joined the BSP and was elected to the Lok Sabha in May
2009.
"The BSP or the state government has nothing to do with the FIR. The
law is taking its own course. Rashid Masood had made intemperate
remarks against the chief minister and the police have taken suo motu
cognizance of the matter," said Rana.
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