STF tasked with nabbing BSP ex-leader’s son

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STF tasked with nabbing BSP ex-leader’s son

Wednesday, 17 October 2018 | PNS | Lucknow

Sleuths of the Special Task Force (STF) have been pressed into service to nab the son of former BSP MP Ashish Pandey, who was booked for brandishing a gun outside a five-star hotel in New Delhi. The accused is suspected to have fled to Uttar Pradesh and taken shelter somewhere in Kanpur after his video went viral on social media.

Ashish Pandey hails from Lucknow and is the son of former BSP MP Rakesh Pandey. His brother Ritesh Pandey is a sitting MLA in UP. A team from Gautampalli police station, along with that of Delhi police, raided Pandey’s house at Santushti Apartment in Dilkusha Colony but failed to trace him.

“Pandey was not found at his home. We interrogated the servants and some of his associates about his localition. No person has been detained in this connection,” Gautampalli SHO Nand Lal said.

Earlier, a complaint about the incident was received by the Delhi police on Monday from the assistant security manager of Hyatt Regency Hotel in RK Puram, following which a Look Out Circular (LOC) was issued and later, an FIR was registered in the case. The incident occurred in the early hours (3:40 am) of October 14.

In the video, Pandey was seen brandishing a gun in the foyer of the hotel. The victim had told newsmen that Pandey walked up to him and used cuss words. “A man with a gun walked up to us menacingly hurled abuses. I was intimidated and scared. The hotel staff present at the spot tried to intervene but they also looked intimidated,” the victim claimed.

Security staff of the hotel told the police that the accused and victims were partying at a nightclub in the hotel and had an argument over using the washroom. A woman accompanying the accused abused the victims and called them “transgender”, a senior officer privy to the probe said.

It was suspected that both the parties were drunk at the time of the incident, he added.

The Delhi police had issued a Look Out Circular after the incident came to their notice and also contacted their counterparts in Uttar Pradesh. “No complaint was lodged by the victim and the hotel staff on the same day. There is negligence on the part of three parties — the victim, hotel authorities and the accused,” the Delhi police said.

The Delhi police later coordinated with their UP counterparts following which UP DGP OP Singh asked the STF to trace the absconding accused.

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