MLA brother, friend defend accused Ashish Pandey

LUCKNOW:

The elder brother

of Ashish Pandey and his friends strongly defended him and even refused to believe that he could be involved in such an incident.


While Ashish's father Rakesh Pandey was not reachable, even though TOI tried calling him multiple times, his elder brother Ritesh Pandey who is a sitting BSP MLA from Jalalpur, Ambedkarnagar, said, "Ashish is very disciplined and mannered fellow, he has been abroad and was very good in studies, he can't do such an act."

"Leave alone any criminal behaviour, Ashish has never ever even been booked on charges of 151 CrPC," claimed Ritesh.

Deepa Bodh, Ashish's friend from

Dehradun

, told TOI that she was aghast when she saw the video in television news. She said, "Ashish was very decent person who always helped people in distress. Delhi police must investigate what had happened in the hotel. There is something fishy and a clear picture needs to emerge."

Senior police officials said that no criminal case is pending against Ashish in Lucknow, but we are verifying if his name has ever figured in records of Ambedkarnagar police.


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