Don Babloo plans to contest assembly polls

Lucknow, Feb 26 (UNI) Underworld don Babloo Srivastava, who was recently acquitted by the Delhi High Court in a murder case, today announced his intentions to enter the electoral fray in the coming assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh.

Babloo had contested the last Lok Sabha elections and the assembly elections unsuccessfully.

Talking to reporters here, he said he proposed to contest as an Independent from Lucknow (central) assembly seat.

The underworld don was here in connection with a criminal case appearance at a local court.

On February 22, the Delhi High Court had acquitted him and co-accused businessman Nitin Shah in the Lalit Kumar Suneja murder case.

The Delhi police had charged the two with entering into a conspiracy to kill Suneja, after Shah and Suneja had failed to settle a financial dispute between them.

Suneja was murdered at Shakarpur in East Delhi in August 1992.

Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar of the Karkardooma courts in Delhi had last year sentenced the two to life imprisonment, holding them guilty of conspiracy and hiring two contract killers -- Virender Pant and Manish Dixit -- to eliminate Suneja.

UNI