New Delhi: Hours after her arrest, Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that she was being kept illegally in the PAC premises in Sitapur and did not serve her any notice or FIR even after being in custody for over 38 hours. Has been.
The Congress leader also said that he was not allowed to meet his legal counsel.
In a statement, he said that he has not been produced before a magistrate or any other judicial officer nor has he been allowed to meet his legal counsel, who has been standing at the gate of the premises since morning.
“At present I am not going to go into the details of wholly illegal physical force used on my associates and me at the time of my arrest as this statement is only to illustrate the continued illegality of my imprisonment at PAC premises in Sitapur, U.P. Works,” she said.
“No order or notice has been served to me. Nor have they shown me an FIR. I have not been produced before any magistrate or any other judicial officer. I have not even been allowed to meet my legal counsel. Standing at the gate since morning,” the Congress leader also said.
Priyanka Gandhi has been kept in custody since Monday morning as she wanted to meet the families of the victims of the Lakhimpur violence.
Besides this, Gandhi also alleged that he had seen a part of a paper on social media in which officials have named 11 people, including eight who were not present when they were arrested.
In fact, he has even named two persons who “brought my clothes from Lucknow on the afternoon of October 4”, she said.
The Congress leader said that the officer who arrested him has been verbally informed under section 151 by DSP Piyush Kumar Singh, CO City, Sitapur at 4.30 am on October 4.
She said, “At the time I was arrested, I was traveling within Sitapur district, which is about 20 kms from the Lakhimpur Kheri district border, which was under section 144. However, to my knowledge, the section in Sitapur was 144 was not imposed.”
“Then I was taken to PAC premises, Sitapur, along with two female and two male constables. After being brought to the PAC premises, no further communication about the circumstances or reasons, or the sections under which I have been charged I have been done by the UP Police or the administration till now-38 hours later on October 5, 2021 at 6.30 pm,” she said.
Meanwhile, former Punjab Congress president Navjot Singh Sidhu on Tuesday threatened to march towards Lakhimpur Kheri along with other party workers. Sidhu warned that if Priyanka Gandhi is not released and the Union minister’s son accused of murder is not arrested, then Punjab Congress workers will march towards Lakhimpur Kheri in Uttar Pradesh.
Several Congress workers have come out in his support and demanded his immediate release so that he can meet the families of the violence victims and share his grief.
(With inputs from PTI.)
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