LUCKNOW: Samajwadi Party MLC and former minister Swami Prasad Maurya has sent a legal notice to the Noida police commissioner for identifying him as the person who had got a forged MLA pass issued to Shrikant Tyagi.
Maurya took to Twitter to announce that he has sent notice to the Noida CP for taking his name without any preliminary probe to dent his public image and has sought damages to the tune of Rs 11.5 crore.
According to the notice, the Noida CP named him without any basis and evidence in a press conference that was held on August 9, in which police stated that the secretariat pass to Tyagi was provided by Swami Prasad Maurya.
On their part, the Gautam Buddha Nagar police said in a statement, “Today information has been received through social media that a notice/letter has been issued by an advocate on behalf of former cabinet minister Swami Prasad Maurya in the context of the press conference held on August 9. In this regard, it is to be informed that no such notice/letter has been officially received by the Noida Commissionerate Police. After receiving the said notice/letter and studying the facts mentioned in it, a suitable answer will be prepared and sent to the concerned.”
To recall, Shrikant Tyagi shot to infamy when a video clip surfaced purportedly showing him abusing and pushing a woman during an argument over palm trees he had planted in the common area of a housing society in Noida. Tyagi was then booked under the charges of molestation and criminal intimidation.
On August 9, Tyagi was arrested from Meerut. Noida CP Alok Singh had then held a conference and had claimed that an MLA sticker on one of his cars had been given to him by his “old political colleague” Swami Prasad Maurya – a minister in Yogi Adityanath’s first term who jumped ship before this year’s assembly and joined the Samajwadi Party.
