Sudhir Yadav, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) Member of Legislative Assembly (MLA) from Surkhi, Madhya Pradesh was reportedly booked under the SC/ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on Tuesday, December 4. Yadav had allegedly hit and verbally abused a 22-year-old Dalit voter outside a polling booth in Barkhedi Sarak, on November 28, during the assembly elections in the state.
Indian Express reported that Deepesh Ahirwar, the Dalit voter cast his vote for the opposition Congress candidate from the constituency. Sagar’s AJK police station that reportedly handles cases pertaining to the SC/ST Act booked Yadav under Sections 294, 323, 506 and 34 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), in addition to booking him under relevant Sections of the SC/ST Act.
In his complaint, according to the Indian Express report, Ahirwar alleged Yadav — who was with his supporters— accosted him outside the polling booth in Barkhedi Sarak. “Yadav asked me who I had voted for and I told him that I voted for the Congress candidate. Hearing it the BJP candidate got infuriated and started abusing me and my caste. Yadav also thrashed me badly for voting the Congress candidate,” Ahirwar reportedly mentioned in his complaint. Ahirwar also alleged that Yadav threatened to kill him if he were to report the matter to the police.
Reportedly, despite being booked, Yadav is yet to be arrested. Yadav is the son of Sagar Member of Parliament Laxmi Narayan Yadav.
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