An FIR has been registered against six people in Lucknow, including a woman who claimed BJP’s Gorakhpur MP Ravi Kishan Shukla is the father of her daughter.
The FIR was registered late Tuesday night at the Hazratganj police station on a complaint by Ravi Kishan’s wife, Preeti Shukla.
Apart from the woman, Aparna Thakur, the FIR also names her husband Rajesh Soni, daughter Shenova Soni, son Sonak Soni, Samajwadi Party leader Vivek Kumar Pandey and a journalist Khurshid Khan.
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They have been booked under IPC sections 120-B (conspiracy), 195 (giving false evidence), 386 (extortion by intimidation), 388 (extortion by threat), 504 (intentional insult) and 506 (criminal intimidation).
Preeti Shukla also alleged in the FIR that Aparna Soni alias Aparna Thakur had threatened her, saying that she has links with the underworld.
She said Aparna had allegedly demanded a ransom of Rs 20 crore and threatened that if her demands were not met, she would tarnish Ravi Kishan’s image by implicating him in a false rape case.
The BJP has renominated Ravi Kishan, a Bhojpuri filmstar, to contest from Gorakhpur in the upcoming Lok Sabha polls. He has held the seat since the 2019 elections.
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