Ballia: Local SP Leader Arrested For Burning Effigies Of PM Modi & HM Amit Shah, Using ‘Abusive Language’

Ballia(UP), Dec 22 (PTI ) A local SP leader was arrested on Sunday and an FIR was lodged against 22 people for allegedly using abusive language against Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Union Home Minister Amit Shah, police said.
Based on the complaint of Sub Inspector Varun Kumar Rakesh in Bhimpura police station, the FIR was lodged on Saturday night against SP leader Fateh Bahadur Yadav, Seema Bharti, Pushpa Devi, Sanju Devi, Reena Devi, Manisha Devi, Mansha Devi, Urmila, Manati, Nisha, Chandravati and Radhika Devi as well as 10 unknown persons.
The FIR was lodged under Sections 132 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 285 (causing danger on public roads), 287 (negligent conduct with respect to fire or combustible matter), 292 (provision of punishment for public nuisance) and 352 (insulting a person) of the BNS.
Citing the FIR lodged, he said that on December 20, the accused allegedly burnt effigies of PM Modi and Shah near the Sikariya canal culvert and used abusive language against them.
They also obstructed government work and blocked a road. Bhimpura police station in-charge Madan Lal Patel said that the police have arrested the accused SP leader on Sunday.
Efforts are being made to arrest other accused. 
<h3>CM Adityanath says law and order in UP has improved, SP claims ‘jungle raj’ everywhere</h3>
Lucknow, Dec 22 (PTI) Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath on Sunday said the law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh has improved and as a result, the state government has received investment proposals worth Rs 40 lakh crore.
The opposition Samajwadi Party, however, countered Adityanath and claimed there is an atmosphere of “jungle raj” in the state with loot, hooliganism and anarchy everywhere.
In a post on X, the Chief Minister’s Office shared a video in which Adityanath is heard saying that there is a better security environment in the state and people have faith in law and order.
”It is the result of this that Uttar Pradesh has received investment proposals of Rs 40 lakh crore,” he said.
Within two hours of this post, the Samajwadi Party’s Media Cell shared on X clippings of news reports about a murder and a dacoity in Varanasi and Chitrakoot respectively.
”This is CM Yogi’s shameful and ruined law and order which he boasts about from packed stages,” read the post which was also shared by SP chief Akhilesh Yadav.
Questioning the chief minister’s claims of improved law and order in the state, the SP said, “In Yogiraj, there is an atmosphere of jungle raj with loot, hooliganism, anarchy, and murder and kidnapping everywhere.” “In CM Yogi’s rule, there is collusion between police, BJP and robbers and the looted goods are distributed among all… CM Yogi should tell if he is the CEO of this gang of robbers or the trainer,” it said. 
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