A day after senior Bharatiya Janata Social gathering (BJP) chief Gulfam Singh Yadav died after an unidentified man allegedly injected a toxic liquid into his abdomen in a village in Uttar Pradesh’s Sambhal district, police on Tuesday mentioned autopsy examination couldn’t verify presence of poison in his physique at the same time as an FIR was registered towards 4 named and two unknown individuals in reference to the crime.
Gulfam Singh Yadav was a distinguished chief of western Uttar Pradesh. (For Illustration)
Giving this data, Sambhal SP Krishna Kumar Bishnoi mentioned: “Police are probing the case and viscera have been preserved for forensic analysis.”
“On basis of the complaint received from the son of the deceased on Tuesday, an FIR has been registered against four named and two unknown people with Junawai police station. We have gathered some significant clues and the culprits will be apprehended soon,” the SP added.
These named within the FIR embrace Dharamveer alias Dhamma, Ravi Yadav and Mahesh Yadav, all from Sambhal’s Medholi village and Mukesh Yadav from Dabthara Shyam village of the district moreover two unknown individuals, police mentioned. As per them, Dharamveer is a historical past sheeter and Ravi Yadav is Junawai block pramukh.
As per the police, Gulfam Singh Yadav, 66, was at his farmhouse in Sambhal’s Debthara Himachal village, the place his spouse Javitri Devi is serving as pradhan for third consecutive time period, beneath Junawai police station on Monday afternoon when three unidentified people, posing as visitors, reached there on a motorbike. After exchanging pleasantries and ingesting water, they took their seats.
Immediately, considered one of them allegedly injected a liquid into the BJP chief’s abdomen earlier than the three assailants fled, abandoning a helmet and a syringe, the police mentioned.
After the assault, the BJP chief managed to stroll out and knowledgeable labourers working at a close-by Anganwadi centre. They rushed him to a non-public physician who referred him to Aligarh Medical Faculty. Nevertheless, he died on his method to Aligarh, the police added.
On getting data, senior police officers, together with SP Krishan Kumar Bishnoi and ASP Anukriti Sharma, additionally visited the positioning of the crime. A forensic staff collected samples, whereas the police took possession of the helmet and the syringe.
A former income officer, Gulfam Singh Yadav gained prominence in western UP after he contested towards the late Samajwadi Social gathering patriarch and former Uttar Pradesh CM Mulayam Singh Yadav from Gunnaur meeting constituency in 2004.
Over time, he held numerous key positions throughout the BJP. He served as a member of the U.P. State Fee for Backward Courses and because the regional vp of BJP’s western Uttar Pradesh unit. Till his loss of life, he was the in-charge of BJP’s Sambhal meeting constituency.