Maniyar nagar panchayat chairperson booked for forging date of birth

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Maniyar nagar panchayat chairperson booked for forging date of birth

Saturday, 27 May 2023 | PNS | Lucknow

In a major setback to Samajwadi Party, its newly-elected chairperson of Maniyar nagar panchayat in Ballia was booked for allegedly fabricating her date of birth while filing her nomination papers for the civic body polls, police said on Friday.

According to a complaint filed by Basic Shiksha Adhikari (BSA) of Ballia, Maniram Singh, SP leader Ritu Devi produced her class 8 mark sheet of Naveen Balika Junior High School in Sripur as her age proof, which suggested her current age as 32 years. However, records showed that no examinee with her name took an exam at the said school that year, the complainant added.

Following allegations against Devi of forging her date of birth, Ballia District Magistrate Ravindra Kumar ordered the BSA to conduct an investigation, the police said.

Ballia City Kotwali Station House Officer Rajeev Singh said that based on Singh’s complaint, an FIR was registered on Thursday night against Devi under sections 419 (cheating by impersonation), 420 (cheating), 467 and 468 (falsification of documents) and 471 (dishonest use of fake certificate) of the Indian Penal Code.

The matter is being probed and appropriate action would be taken, the SHO said.

The SP candidate had defeated Bharatiya Janata Party’s Buchiya by a margin of 1,609 votes in the Maniyar nagar panchayat seat reserved for Scheduled Tribe women. Devi secured 4,919 votes, while Buchiya got 3,310 votes. A total of seven candidates contested this seat.

Meanwhile, in a killing over an election related dispute, a gram pradhan (village head) was shot dead in broad daylight in Gonda, police said on Friday.

The sensational killing took place on Thursday. Police personnel from nearby police stations have been deployed in the area to maintain peace.

According to Additional Superintendent of Police Shivraj, Bhupmani Shukla (40), the head of Pariyava village within Tarabganj police station limits, was shot at by an unidentified assailant in the afternoon. Shukla was rushed to the district hospital where the doctors pronounced him dead.

After Shukla was shot at Bhanpur intersection under Tarabganj police station, the angry relatives created a ruckus at the district hospital and insisted on taking the body home without a post-mortem. After much persuasion by the police, the relatives gave consent for autopsy.

A case has been registered by the police and efforts are on to trace out the killers who are absconding from the village.

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