LUCKNOW: Anil Prajapati, son of former UP minister Gayatri Prasad Prajapati, was arrested by the Lucknow police on Thursday. The arrest was made in connection with a case of fraud, misappropriation of land and criminal conspiracy lodged against him and his father with the Gomtinagar Extension police station here on September 17 this year.
The FIR was lodged by Brij Bhawan Dubey, a former director in a company owned by Prajapati and his family. Anil was arrested from Hazratganj crossing in the afternoon by a team of Gomtinagar Extension police station, said ACP, Gomtinagar, Shweta Srivastava, adding "he would be produced before a court tomorrow."
Dubey in his FIR had alleged that Gayatri, Anil and their aides had forced him to get a land worth Rs 2.5 crore registered in the name of a Chitrakoot-based woman, ACP said.
Dubey had further alleged that she was the same woman who had accused Gayatri Prajapti and his aides of gangrape in 2017.