By IANS,
Kolkata: Samajwadi Party general secretary Amar Singh Friday filed a police complaint against Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Mayawati in Kolkata alleging she had hatched a “political conspiracy” against him.
Amar Singh’s complaint, lodged at the Ballygunge police station in the southern part of the city, also names six others including Shivkanth Tripathi, who had earlier registered a police case against the Samajwadi Party leader in Kanpur.
“Amar Singh has filed a complaint alleging that Mayawati is involved in a political conspiracy against him,” Deputy Commissioner of Police (Detective Department-1) Damayanti Sen told IANS.
Later, the Samajwadi Party leader called on Police Commissioner Goutam Chakraborty with the request that police begin a case by treating his complaint as a first information report (FIR).
Asked why he had lodged the complaint against Mayawati in Kolkata, Amar Singh said he had his permanent address in the city, and also filed income tax returns from here.
In an FIR registered in Kanpur, Tripathi had accused Amar Singh of indulging in fraud involving inter-transfer of funds between his different companies. He had attached evidence running into almost 1,700 pages to substantiate his charge.
The Uttar Pradesh government, however, chose to refer the case to Kolkata Police after Amar Singh accused Chief Minister Mayawati of masterminding a “conspiracy” and threatened to launch a counter-offensive against her.
However, the city police Thursday tossed the file back to Kanpur saying the authorities of the northern state had followed a wrong course.