Cong woman neta arrested for staging attack on herself

Lucknow: The

Sultanpur

police on Friday arrested Congress leader

Reeta

Yadav for staging an attack on herself. On January 3 she had lodged an FIR, stating that she was shot in the leg by three unidentified miscreants. During investigation it came to light that she had fabricated the attack theory along with her associates Dharmendra and

Madhav

just to grab the party leadership’s attention, assuming that it would help in getting the party ticket to contest upcoming assembly elections.On November 16 Reeta had made headlines for showing black flags to Prime Minister Narendra Modi at his rally in Sultanpur.Superintendent of police, Sultanpur, Vipin Mishra said that Reeta had informed the police that three unidentified motorcycle-borne assailants had forced her driver to stop the vehicle at gunpoint on the Lucknow-Varanasi highway. She also told the police that when the driver stopped the vehicle they opened fire at her, the SP said. “A CO rank officer was asked to probe the case who interrogated the driver Mustaqim,” the SP further said, adding that Mustaquim broke down and spilled the beans that Reeta along with her associates Dharmendra Yadav, a former gram pradhan Madhav Yadav and SurajYadav had staged the attack on herself to get noticed by the Congress leadership.The police have arrested Reeta, Dharmendra and Mustaquim under various charges. Others named in the case, including Suraj and Madhav are on the run.
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