Sitapur: Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, who has been detained in Uttar Pradesh’s Sitapur, talks to the media when she was visiting the violence-hit Lakhimpur district.
Congress general secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra on Tuesday alleged that she was being kept illegally in the PAC premises in Sitapur and even after 38 hours of custody, no notice or FIR has been given to her and she was allowed to meet her legal counsel. has not been given.
Priyanka Gandhi said in a statement that she has not been produced before a magistrate or any other judicial officer nor has she been allowed to meet her legal counsel, who has been standing at the gate of the campus 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.
She said she had seen part of a paper on social media in which officials named 11 people, including eight who were not even present when they were arrested.
Gandhi Vadra has been kept in custody since Monday morning as she wanted to meet the families of the victims Lakhimpur clashes.
She said she had seen part of a paper on social media in which officials named 11 people, including eight who were not even 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.
Vadra said he has been arrested under section 151 on October 4 at 4.30 am on a verbal intimation by the arresting officer, DSP Piyush Kumar Singh, CO City, Sitapur.
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.”
She said that she was traveling in the same vehicle with four other persons, two local Congress workers, Rajya Sabha MPs Deepender Hooda and Sandeep Singh and no security car or Congress workers were accompanying her except the four persons.
“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.
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.
Congress workers also took out a candle march outside the guest house in Sitapur, where they are kept. He took out a march in Lakhimpur this evening showing solidarity with him and the farmers.
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