Two BJP leaders arrested for extortion
Srinagar: Two BJP leaders were arrested in north Kashmir’s Bandipora on Thursday for allegedly extorting money from a woman in order to get her brother out of jail, officials said.
They identified the arrested men as BJP’s Bandipora district president Abdul Rehman Tikri and sarpanch Mushtaq Ahmad.
The woman, in her complaint, alleged that she approached the BJP leaders seeking their intervention to get her brother released, the officials said without divulging further details.
BJP spokesman Altaf Thakur confirmed the development and said the “law will take its own course”.
Further investigation is underway, the officials said.
Meanwhile, the BJP ‘relieved’ its district president for Bandipora Abdul Rehman Tikri from all responsibilities after police booked him and his accomplice.
“Abdul Rehman Tikri, district President BJP Bandipora is relieved off of his responsibilities as district president BJP Bandipora and all other party responsibilities with immediate effect,” reads an “order” by BJP J&K president Ravinder Raina.
Press Trust of India
