Priyanka Gandhi Agra Visit: Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi reached Agra around 11 pm and met the family members of Arun Valmiki. Arun Valmiki, accused of stealing cash from a warehouse of a police station in Agra, died in police custody on Tuesday. After this Priyanka Gandhi left for the meeting, although the police stopped her on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway.
On hearing the news of Priyanka being stopped, a large number of Congress workers reached Lucknow-Agra Expressway and started raising anti-government slogans. After this, with only four people, the police allowed him to go to Agra.
Police Commissioner D.K. Thakur had told, “The District Magistrate of Agra had made a written request to the Lucknow Police that leaders of political parties coming to Agra from the capital should not be allowed to come there in view of law and order. That is why the Congress General Secretary and others accompanying him were stopped on the Lucknow-Agra Expressway inside the Lucknow border.”
CM Yogi’s statement
At the Kushinagar airport, Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath, on the question asked about Priyanka’s detention, said, “Law and order is paramount, no one will be allowed to play with the law.”
Significantly, Arun, who worked as a sweeper there, was being interrogated for the theft of Rs 25 lakh from the Malkhana of Jagdishpura police station in Agra. During the search, Rs 15 lakh was recovered from Arun’s house.
Agra Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Muniraj G. Told that on Tuesday night, on the spot of Arun, his house was being searched to recover the stolen money, during that time the health of the accused started deteriorating. He was immediately taken to the hospital where doctors declared him brought dead. A total of 11 policemen have been suspended so far in both the cases of theft of cash from the mall and the death of the accused in custody.
Seeing the injured girl while going to Agra, Priyanka Gandhi stopped the convoy, also gave her own ointment, phone number
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