Case against Aligarh mayor, former BSP MLA

ALIGARH: Senior leader of the Bharatiya Janata Party, Rajendra Varshney, on Saturday filed a case against former MLA & BSP leader Zameerullah Khan and Aligarh mayor Mohd Furqan in the court of the chief judicial magistrate Praveen Kumar Sonkar.

Advocate Pravin Gupta, on Varshney’s behalf, accused the duo of participating in a communally charged conversation soon after the municipal council members’ oath-taking ceremony on December 12.

The court has fixed December 21 for recording Varshney’s statement in the matter.

According to the complaint, Bahujan Samaj Party ward members raised religious slogans during the oath-taking ceremony and failed to show due respect to the national song ‘Vande Mataram’.

It further stated that after the ceremony, a meeting was convened at the Shamshad Market residence of Mohd Furqan in which former minister Mahendra Singh, former BSP district president Ashok Singh, ward member Musharraf Hussain Mahzar, Zameerullah Khan and other BSP ward members were present.

The complainant said that during this meeting, Zameerullah Khan made an objectionable statement of communal nature and mayor Mohd Furqan expressed his agreement on the same.

The complainant added that the statement was published in newspapers and hurt the sentiments of Bharatiya Janata Party leaders. Varshney further said that he went to the civil lines police station in the matter, but while the police accepted his complaint, no FIR was registered. “So, my advocate had to file a case in court,” he said.

THE COMPLAINANT SAID ZAMEERULLAH KHAN HAD MADE AN OBJECTIONABLE STATEMENT OF COMMUNAL NATURE AND MAYOR MOHD FURQAN EXPRESSED HIS AGREEMENT