LUCKNOW: At least 1,000 members of Samajwadi Party have been booked for allegedly stopping and searching vehicles of officials, ahead of counting of votes on March 9. FIRs have been registered in districts like Varanasi, Ballia, Basti, Agra, Saharanpur and Hapur.
A senior officer at the DGP headquarters said that maximum seven FIRs have been registered against 100 Samajwadi Party workers for checking vehicle of seven government officers including an SDM outside the polling station of Navin Mandi, Basti, on March 9.
Saharanpur SSP Akash Tomar said that an FIR has been registered against 15 for stopping the vehicle of returning officer ahead of counting of votes. Similarly, in Ballia, 27 SP workers were booked for the same offence. Likewise, in Agra, a case has been registered against 25 identified and 60 unidentified workers of SP and RLD.
