<p>Caring little for the repeated warnings by the party leadership, a Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator, who has criminal antecedents, thrashed a revenue official in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahar district, about 450 kilometers from here, allegedly after the latter refused to pay ‘protection money’ to the goons of the MLA.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The revenue official Jaiveer Singh, who was posted at Dibai tehsil in the district, has lodged a complaint with the police accusing the MLA Sribhagwan Sharma alias Guddu Pandit of assaulting and threatening him with life after he refused to pay ‘protection money’ demanded by him.<br /><br />Singh has alleged in his complaint that the goons of the MLA charged him with ‘earning huge amount of money in bribes’ and demanded that they be given a ‘share’ of the same. “When I denied having earned any money illegally and refused to pay them anything, the MLA put a revolver at my temple and threatened to shoot me,” the official alleged further.<br /><br />Pandit, who has a long criminal past, had earlier hit the headlines after his name had cropped up in a case of stalking, sexually exploiting and threatening a research scholar after she insisted on marrying him following a love affair. He was also arrested in the case in 2008. Pandit was then a BSP legislator and had crossed over to the SP in 2012.The MLA, however, has rubbished the allegations.</p>
<p>Caring little for the repeated warnings by the party leadership, a Samajwadi Party (SP) legislator, who has criminal antecedents, thrashed a revenue official in Uttar Pradesh’s Bulandshahar district, about 450 kilometers from here, allegedly after the latter refused to pay ‘protection money’ to the goons of the MLA.<br /><br /></p>.<p>The revenue official Jaiveer Singh, who was posted at Dibai tehsil in the district, has lodged a complaint with the police accusing the MLA Sribhagwan Sharma alias Guddu Pandit of assaulting and threatening him with life after he refused to pay ‘protection money’ demanded by him.<br /><br />Singh has alleged in his complaint that the goons of the MLA charged him with ‘earning huge amount of money in bribes’ and demanded that they be given a ‘share’ of the same. “When I denied having earned any money illegally and refused to pay them anything, the MLA put a revolver at my temple and threatened to shoot me,” the official alleged further.<br /><br />Pandit, who has a long criminal past, had earlier hit the headlines after his name had cropped up in a case of stalking, sexually exploiting and threatening a research scholar after she insisted on marrying him following a love affair. He was also arrested in the case in 2008. Pandit was then a BSP legislator and had crossed over to the SP in 2012.The MLA, however, has rubbished the allegations.</p>
