BJP leader Pramod Yadav was shot dead by unidentified assailants in the Jaunpur district of Uttar Pradesh on Thursday, police said. The shooting incident occurred near Bodhpur village of Jaunpur district, which falls under the Sikarara police station area.
Superintendent of Police (City) Brijesh Kumar said that Yadav, a resident of Bodhapur, was travelling in his car when some motorcycle riders signalled to stop his car on the pretext of giving a ‘card’ and shot at him. The incident occurred at around 10 am.
“The assailants fired four shots at Yadav,” said Kumar.
According to the police, the assailants fled the scene, and left their bike at some distance.
The Jaunpur district unit president of BJP Kisan Morcha, Yadav, was rushed to the hospital. There he was declared brought dead by the doctor.
Several teams have been deployed to ensure the arrest of the assailants, said Jaunpur Superintendent of Police (SP) Ajaipal Sharma. He also added that the initial investigation of the police has led to some important clues.
The probe for Pramod Yadav’s murder is underway, and the Jaunpur SP said that the people involved in the incident will be arrested soon.
In the 2021 assembly polls, Yadav had contested from the Malhani seat for BJP against Jagriti Singh, ex-wife of former MP and strongman Dhananjay Singh.
On Wednesday, a MP/MLA court sentenced former MP Dhananjay Singh to seven years of imprisonment in a 2020 kidnapping and extortion case.
Presently with the Janata Dal (United), Singh was reportedly preparing to contest the upcoming Lok Sabha elections from Jaunpur. But the conviction now makes him ineligible under the Representation of the People Act to contest election.
Additional Sessions Judge Sharad Kumar Tripathi, who held Singh and his associate Santosh Vikram guilty in the case of kidnapping of Namami Gange project manager Abhinav Singhal on Tuesday, also imposed a fine of ₹75,000 on each of them, District Government Counsel (Criminal) Satish Pandey said.
(With PTI inputs)
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Published: 07 Mar 2024, 01:02 PM IST