Jamuna Prasad Nishad, another skeleton in the Mayawati's Cabinet, who was sacked on Monday and was eventually arrested by the UP police a day later at the order of Chief Minister Mayawati, is sent to judicial custody on Wednesday for fourteen days by the chief judicial magistrate of Maharajgang in connection with the killing of a police constable inside the Maharajgang kotwali police station on 7th June.
On Monday he was overthrown from the government, but kept distant from the immediate clutches of the police as Mayawati was reluctant to his arrest, as he belongs to the Nishad community, the strong vote bank of the BSP supremo.
Jamuna Prasad Nishad, the former fisheries minister was found accused of vandalising Maharajganj police station along with his 50-odd supporters and was arrested for the murder of police constable Krishanand Rai late on Saturday night.
Nishad has been found accused of inciting a mob - protesting the rape of a girl. After confrontation with the policemen, one of the mob shot at a constable to death.
He was booked under a series of odd-Sections of the IPC, said DGP Vikram Singh, and was arrested on charges of conspiracy (Section 120 B) for and involvement in murder; issuing threats, abusing and assault (Section 323, 504, 506); possession and display of arms at a public place (Section 27 of Arms Act); and rioting, inciting mob and damaging government property (Section 147, 148, 149).
The seriousness of the incident involving murder of policeman and her own minister led Mayawati to call a press conference on Sunday where she announced that her government was committed to quash criminals across the state and no one, not even her party leaders, would be protected by the government if were found in any criminal activity.
The nexus of politicians and criminals is a well established fact. But the problem aggravates when a criminal-turned-politician is given party ticket and inducted into ministries after winning the election. Why the criminals are given party tickets? If theses are given only to secure a seat which these goons do easily with their power of money, force and threat; such dirty politics is a stigma on the democracy which points finger to the party's credibility.
Mayawati no doubt did a brave work by sacking her own minister what other governments could not dare to do at the first instance before being convicted by the law.
It was the Maywati, who had shown such bravery earlier too at two instances. In November last year, Anand Sen Yadav, the minister of state for food processing was forced to resign over his alleged involvement in the kidnapping and murder of a 24-year-old Dalit girl Shashi. The investigation in the case is still going on.
The second instance belong to the September last year, when minister for water resources and land development Raghunath Prasad Shankhwar was sacked after his name cropped up in a Rs 5 million drug purchase scam. The probe in the scam is also on the way.
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