Roorkee mayor arrested in assault case

Roorkee Mayor Yashpal Rana was arrested here for allegedly assaulting BJP councillor Chandra Prakash Bata on Sunday night after a tiff over car parking.
The assault followed a tiff between them on Sunday night when Rana and Bata had gone to attend two separate private functions held by their acquaintances in the same colony, Superintendent of Police (Rural) Manikant Mishra said.
The trouble started when Bata, along with his nephew Nikhil Verma, asked the Mayor to remove his parked vehicle from a lane where the function he had come to attend was in progress, he said.
Bata's nephew Nikhil had an argument over the matter with Rana's son Lovey following which the Mayor, along with his supporters, allegedly assaulted Bata and Nikhil, causing serious injuries to the councillor, the SP said citing the complaint lodged at Gangnahar police station.

The councillor's brother Devendra Verma had lodged the complaint on Sunday night following which Rana was arrested.
He was produced in a local court on Monday which remanded him in 14 days' judicial custody.
Meanwhile, supporters of Rana who is a Congress leader gathered at Kotwali and created a ruckus yesterday alleging that Rana had been arrested at the behest of the ruling BJP.
His supporters included Congress legislator from Kaliyar, Furkan Ahmad, Bhagwanpur MLA Mamta Rakesh, former minister Ram Singh Saini and former state minister Sanjay Paliwal.