By IANS,
Lucknow: Haji Abdul Samad, a legislator of the ruling Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) in Uttar Pradesh, Monday denied having assaulted Varanasi additional district magistrate (ADM) R.K.Singh and claimed the official was trying to implicate him.
Singh, who was posted as ADM (Protocol) in the city, has accused Samad of beating him up in his own office last month, following which there was an uproar among Provincial Civil Service (PCS) officers, who demanded legal action against the legislator.
While police in Varanasi lodged a case against Samad, no penal action was initiated against him. The Varanasi police even went to the extent of declaring him as “absconding”, yet he appeared in the state assembly Monday to attend the proceedings of the monsoon session’s second day.
The legislator not only denied he had beaten up Singh but also accused the ADM of fabricating a case against him.
“I did not hit him even once; on the contrary, this ADM cooked up a story against me simply because I objected to his demand for bribe from a person who had gone to him for some work”, Samad told reporters outside the state assembly here.
The legislator said he had gone to meet the district magistrate July 27, but was told he was in a meeting, so he had walked into the chamber of ADM (Protocol). Samad claimed he had found the official demanding a bribe of Rs.50,000 from a man from his constituency who had applied for a solvency certificate.
“I not only warned him, but from there itself I also called up the Vidhan Sabha secretary, informing him that I would raise this as a privilege issue in the house.”
“I have confirmed information that no sooner than I left his office, Singh bolted his room from inside, tore off his clothes and started crying, while narrating a cooked up story against me,” Samad added.
A first-time legislator, Samad is said to be close to Chief Minister Mayawati.