New Delhi: Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi Vadra said that she has been detained at Sitapur Guest House without any legal warrant, now a case has been registered against her and the leader has been arrested.
SHO of Hargaon police station in Sitapur district said that 11 people including Priyanka Gandhi, Deependra Hooda and Ajay Kumar Lallu have been booked for disturbing the peace.
According to the inputs of ABP News, Priyanka Gandhi has been arrested under Section 151,107,116 and the PAC Guest House has been converted into a temporary jail for the Congress General Secretary. The FIR states that he was arrested on October 4 at 4:30 am and was not taken into custody. After this, the SHO Hargaon had also sent the challan to the 151 magistrate.
This comes after the Congress general secretary shared back-to-back tweets calling on the central and state government to detain opposition leaders and prevent them from visiting the Lakhimpur violence site where 8 people, including four farmers, were killed. .
However, the UP government has restricted everyone to visit the site as Section 144 was imposed in the area on Sunday night.
Congress workers stage a massive sit-in outside Sitapur PAC guest house, where Priyanka Gandhi was detained on Monday.
Earlier during the day, the leader tagged Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter and asked, “Why is it that your government has kept me in custody for the last 28 hours without any orders and FIRs and the person who trampled farmers has now been arrested.” Haven’t been arrested yet.
The Congress general secretary also shared a purported video of the incident in which the car is seen hitting and crushing several people. The video is being claimed that it is of the violent incident in Lakhimpur, in which 8 people including four farmers were crushed to death by a car.
Vadra also shared a video of himself from the detention centre, addressing the Prime Minister, saying, “I came to know that you are going to Lucknow today on the occasion of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav. Have you seen this video? (Viral) Shares video) Farmers are being crushed by a car. Please watch the video and answer me why Lakhimpur accused is free and why political leaders are detained without any orders. Please come to Lakhimpur and suffer for months Listen to the plight of the farmers.”
Congress leader Priyanka Gandhi was detained from Hargaon on Monday when she was on her way to Lakhimpur Kheri to meet the family members of the deceased farmers. Congress had shared several videos on Twitter in which Priyanka Gandhi can be seen questioning the police that she is not allowed to visit the site of violence.
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