Lucknow: In a shocking incident, a Samajwadi Party leader in Agra allegedly assaulted a vegetable vendor and urinated on his mouth over a minor altercation.
According to reports reaching here, SP leader Muslim Khan Thekedar and his father Haji Punni thrashed the vendor, Narotam Singh Baghel, when the latter asked for space to walk ahead in Etmadpur area. Baghel told local reporters that he was assaulted by the SP leader and his aides without any apparent provocation.
“I was returning home on Tuesday night when I politely asked Haji Punni to allow me to walk ahead as I was in a hurry. An infuriated Punni called his son and other relatives and thrashed me. If that was not enough, Muslim Khan and his aides including Aslam, Mobin and three others urinated on my mouth”.
The SP leader, on the other hand, insisted that Baghel was drunk and had abused his father who is mentally unsound. “I admit that I assaulted him but never urinated on him,” he said.
The SP leader also blamed the local VHP leaders of instigating Narotam Singh Baghel to give a wrong statement in the matter.
