Dadri Nagar Panchayat chairman Geeta Pandit whose husband Vijay Pandit was shot dead on Saturday accused Samajwadi Party leader Narendra Bhati and two others for the conspiracy behind her husband’s murder. Two others whom she has accused are notorious Western Uttar Pradesh gangster Anil Dujana and Vikram Thekedar.
According to her, Mr. Bhati, who had unsuccessfully contested from the Gautam Buddha Nagar in the Lok Sabha elections, was upset with the fact that her husband campaigned for BJP’s Mahesh Sharma who went on to win the seat. She and other family members alleged that Mr. Pandit had received threats from Mr. Bhati and others but the Uttar Pradesh Police never took any cognisance of the matter.
Mr. Bhati, who was recently removed from the post of UP Agro Corporation following SP’s drubbing in the Parliamentary elections, had been in news for his alleged role in the suspension of the then Gautam Buddha Nagar SDM Durga Shakti Nagpal last year.
For his part, Mr. Bhati refuted all allegations and said that he had never met or even spoken to Vijay Pandit.
While Mr. Bhati alleged that the BJP was politicising the issue, party leaders, including Mahesh Sharma, blamed the Akhilesh Yadav-led State Government for the failure of law and order in the State.
Gautam Buddha Nagar MP Mahesh Sharma criticised the SP Government and said that if people were not safe in the National Capital Region areas such as Greater Noida, it showed how bad the situation was in interior parts of Uttar Pradesh.
BJP leader Mukhtar Abbas Naqvi said: “Law and order situation has completely been destroyed in Uttar Pradesh and the State Government is responding in a very casual manner.”
