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Goondaraj in Akhilesh's UP: SP leader, 2 others booked for extortion and threatening
Bahraich, Jan 3: SP leader Dilip Verma and two others have been booked on charges of extortion and issuing threats to a village panchayat officer, police said today.
In a complaint made to the police, panchayat officer of Chowksahar Mansaram Yadav alleged that the former legislator called him to his house and pressurised him to make a payment of Rs 10 lakhs to two gram pradhans in an illegal manner, without undertaking any development work.
On the complaint of Yadav, a case has been registered against Verma and two others and investigations were on, police said.
Verma recently completed a jail term of five years in connection with an attack on a Dalit constable.
PTI
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