Overview
- Police arrested five people — named as Balram Yadav, Sher Bahadur Yadav, Manupal, Dharamraj Yadav and Vipin Yadav — after an alleged mob stormed Samajwadi Party MLA Maharaji Prajapati’s house, the episode unfolding Tuesday night in Awas Vikas Colony.
- A formal complaint from the MLA’s son led police to register a case naming 10 people and 24 unidentified persons and to file charges that include rioting, voluntarily causing hurt, criminal intimidation and provisions of the Criminal Law Amendment Act.
- Investigators say a social-media row between local supporters, including posts by Sher Bahadur Yadav and responses from Dheeraj Pal, escalated into the physical confrontation that involved masked men, sticks and rods.
- The complaint alleges attackers abused family members, issued death threats, assaulted residents and snatched mobile phones from women who tried to record the incident; police say the MLA’s house is peaceful now but officers remain deployed there.
- The case carries local political sensitivity because Maharaji Prajapati is the wife of jailed former minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, and authorities warn further arrests and CCTV forensics could widen the probe and affect local tensions.