Gun-toting Ashish Pandey not the first in his family to fall foul of law

Pandey's family has varied business interests while his father, a former BSP MP, already faces three criminal cases

Ashish Pandey, who recently brandished a gun at a woman, trying to intimidate her and her friend at New Delhi's Hyatt Regency hotel, comes from a political family in Uttar Pradesh with huge business interests and several past criminal cases.

The son of a former Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) member of Parliament Rakesh Pandey and brother of Ritesh Pandey, BSP member of the UP legislative Assembly from Jalalpur, Ashish is a realtor and has not entered the political arena yet.

According to media reports, he frequents Delhi for business or leisure, and on Sunday he was partying when the incident