Police reopen murder case against suspended BSP MLA

Verma,the MLA from Hastinapur seat in Meerut,has been on the run after a case of attempt to murder case was lodged against him on the day he was suspended from the party.

The police is searching for him and his younger brother Rajan Verma who is named in the case. It is alleged that they,along with four unidentified associates,threatened and beat up Bansal and his two younger brothers in order to pressurise them not to pursue the case.

According to Bansal,on November 2,2009,Verma’s associates,on his directions,went to his rented house at Friends Apartment at Thapur Nagar in Meerut and started hurling abuses and pushed his mother Laxmi Bansal who was alone at that time. “Shocked,she died on the spot,” said Bansal.

“The house owner had engaged the MLA to evict us from the house,and the MLA and his men had been harassing them. Three days before the incident,the MLA and his men had come to my house and asked us to move out,” said Bansal,a businessman.

Since the police did not entertain his complaint,Bansal approached the court which ordered in his favour. On January 31,2010,the police lodged an FIR against the MLA and his seven associates under section 396 of the IPC (dacoity with murder) at the Sadar Bazaar police station on the court’s order.

After investigating the case,the Meerut police filed the final report in the case in May 2011,saying there was no evidence of the MLA’s involvement. Bansal then filed an application in the court,challenging police action which is still pending.