BHOPAL: On Thursday another powerful BJP leader’s son was arrested for allegedly threatening a Congress leader.
Ex-minister and present MLA Kamal Patel’s son Sudip Patel was arrested for allegedly making casteist aspersions and threatening to kill an advocate-cum-Congress leader Sukhram Bamane in Harda district on April 28.
According to Harda district superintendent of police Bhagwat Singh Virde, the arrest had been made on Thursday in connection with the case lodged against by Bamane under sections 294, 506, 509 and 120B of IPC and provisions of SC/ST Atrocities (Prevention) Act.
A reward of Rs 25,000 was announced on Sudip’s arrest just a few days back in the matter. Five police teams were constituted to nab Sudip who was continuously on the run in the case.
On April 28, just a day before the first phase of Lok Sabha polls in the state, Sudip had threatened to kill the advocate-cum-Congress leader Sukhram Bamane over phone and also made casteist aspersions against the latter.
The Congress leader had made a Facebook post mentioning that the farmers whose loan were waived off by the Kamal Nath government, included ex-minister Kamal Patel’s wife Rekha Patel (Sudip’s mother) after which Sudip had allegedly made the threatening phone call.
Bamane had subsequently lodged a criminal case against Sudip, but delay in his arrest had irked local SC/ST outfits.
SP added that Sudip Patel is an accused in 14 other cases, including the September 2013 communal violence in Chippawad town in Harda district. In May 2017, Sudip was externed from five districts of MP following a district administration order.
