One more accused booked under NSA

VARANASI: One more accused in June 9 Bhadethi violence, Aftab Alam alias Noor Alam alias Hitler of the village in Saraikhwaja police station area of Jaunpur district was booked under the stringent National Security Act (NSA) on Monday.
ADG Varanasi zone Brij Bhushan said the Jaunpur police initiated the action of booking Alam under NSA even as he had already been booked under Gangster Act for his involvement in the violence.
Earlier, the main accused of arson in Bhadethi village Javed Siddiqi was booked under NSA on Saturday.
Javed and Alam were among the 57 accused persons allegedly involved in setting ablaze the house of Dalits after thrashing them in Bhadethi village on June 9. Bhadethi had witnessed violence over a minor dispute between children of SC dominated area and those of another community.
The village head had intervened and pacified the two groups and the situation had normalised in the evening, but at night a group of people from another community had raided the SC dominated area, attacked and injured many people, ransacked homes and set seven hutments on fire. After chief minister Yogi Adityanath took a strict note of the incident of attack on Dalits and ordered prompt action, police arrested 37 accused by June 11. The Sarai Khawaja police station in-charge inspector Sanjiv Mishra was also attached to police lines over the incident.