Crime

Two BJP leaders from Kashmir held for extorting money from woman to get her brother out of jail

BJP wokers attend a party-organised function in Kashmir. [FPK File Photo]

Srinagar: Two BJP leaders were arrested on Thursday for allegedly extorting money from a woman in order to get her brother out of jail, news agency PTI reported quoting officials.

They identified the arrested men as BJP’s Bandipora district president Abdul Rehman Tikri and sarpanch Mushtaq Ahmad.

The woman, in her complaint, alleged that she approached the BJP leaders seeking their intervention to get her brother released, the officials said without divulging further details.

BJP spokesman Altaf Thakur confirmed the development to a news agency and said the “law will take its own course”.

Further investigation is underway, the report said quoting the officials further.

 

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