Irfan Solanki, a member of the Samajwadi Party, is in trouble after being booked on Tuesday for traveling from New Delhi to Mumbai using a fake Aadhaar card on November 11.
According to sources, the MLA and his brother Rizwan were previously wanted by the Kanpur police for allegedly setting a woman’s house on fire to grab her 365 sq yard plot in Jajmau’s Defence Colony, said officials.
Anand Prakash Tiwari, joint commissioner of police (law and order), reported that three people who allegedly assisted Solanki in obtaining the Aadhaar card, including prominent SP politician Noori Shauqat, had been arrested. Ashraf Ali, Anwar Mansoori, and Akhtar Mansoori made up the other three. Ishrat Ali and Ammar Ilahi, two further individuals, have not yet been arrested, according to Tiwari.
To avoid arrest, the MLA took a flight from Delhi to Mumbai using a fake identity. The officer claimed that although his picture was on the Aadhaar card, Ashraf Ali was mentioned as his name.
Tiwari said the fresh FIR was lodged with the Gwaltoli police. “The police have seized the computer and other gadgets that were used to forge the Aadhaar,” he said, adding the police charged Solanki and six others under sections 212, 419, 420, 467, 468, 471, and 120-B of the IPC.
To arrest the MLA, many police teams were conducting a raid in several places. The police squad discovered Solanki had traveled from New Delhi to Mumbai while they were pursuing him.
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According to the JCP, the police were able to verify Solanki’s entry and exit from the airport terminals in the two cities through CCTV footage
The footage also purportedly showed that some people had come to the airport to receive the MLA. “All these people knew that Solanki was wanted in a criminal offense and that he was traveling on forged documents. They have also been made an accused,” he added.
The FIR was filed before the district court hearing on Solanki’s anticipatory bail plea. Naresh Chandra Tripathi, his lawyer, said that the MLA was being set up.
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