MEERUT: Exactly 29 months after convicted fugitive don Badan Singh Baddo escaped police custody during his transit from Fatehgarh Central jail to Ghaziabad court for hearing, he has surfaced again on social media and has been regularly putting up posts. His latest post, on Wednesday, claimed how a former DGP-turned-politician Braj Lal ruined his life and turned him into a criminal. Baddo was convicted for life in a murder case.
Police are, however, clueless about his whereabouts ever since he disappeared from a hotel in Meerut on March 28, 2019. SSP Prabhakar Chaudhary has now set up a cyber cell team to track the IP address of the Facebook account to ascertain from where the posts are being uploaded.
This is not the first time Baddo has become active on social networking sites. On November 5, last year, the Allahabad High Court had taken a serious note. In fact, the Uttar Pradesh government was asked to file an affidavit in this regard.
Continuing his tirade against Lal, Baddo wrote, "Braj called me cunning in the media but the truth is if I wasn't cunning I wouldn’t have been able to fight him and the system he controls nor would I have been able to survive for so long." He compared himself with the likes of freedom fighters and mentioned the British Raj.
Baddo also blamed the Meerut police and local administration for "Illegally" demolishing his bungalow which he says was not his but his relative Kuldeep Kaur.
Lal was a UP DGP during Mayawati government and is now a Rajya Sabha member from BJP.
When contacted, Lal refuted all allegations and said, "What to comment on the statements of a convicted murderer who is currently on the run. He should be given the same treatment as a criminal of his calibre should be given. That's all I can say about him."
