As many as 139 people, including an SBSP MLA, have been booked in connection with the last week’s violence in Kushinagar followed by the rumours of the death of a drug peddler in police custody, officials said on Monday.
On Saturday, protests broke out following the death rumour of drug peddler Naurang Singh. Roads were blocked, shops were ransacked and huts were torched while personnel from three police stations had to use force to control the mob, police said.
Singh was arrested on August 14 in case registered under Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances Act and was sent to a jail in Deoria, they said. The Suheldev Bhartiya Samaj Party (SBSP) MLA
from Kushinagar’s Ramkola, Ramanand Baudh, was among 139 booked for violence in an FIR registered in Kushinagar on Sunday, police said.
