Sangeet Som In Dadri

Sangeet Som, the BJP's controversial lawmaker in Uttar Pradesh, has been accused of violating the poll code after the police last night found CDs in a car he was using to campaign for next month's election.

The hearing in a case against BJP legislator Sangeet Som and others for allegedly blocking roads in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district during a protest in 2009 has been adjourned till December 22.

A charge sheet has been filed against Uttar Pradesh BJP leader Sangeet Som for allegedly violating the prohibitory orders imposed in Dadri's Bishada village, where a man was killed in a mob attack over rumours that he stored and consumed beef.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "angry" with party leaders who made incendiary statements in the aftermath of the Dadri killing over beef rumours and party chief Amit Shah today pulled up those involved, sources told NDTV.

NDTV has accessed documents that show Mr Som was associated with not just one but two meat processing and export companies.

Amit Sisodia and Deepak Raghav, both in their 20s, spend most of the day checking job sites and chatting with a group of friends on the internet. Most are graduates and all of them are unemployed.

Days after the Dadri killing, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav said those behind the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots were involved in this case too. The conspiracy, he said, had been hatched by "three persons of a specific party" and the state will take stern action against the accused, "even if we have to sacrifice the government".

A week after a mob killed a Muslim man over rumours that he had beef in his house in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, senior union minister Arun Jaitley has said that such incidents affect the country's image and "amount to policy diversions."

As politics rages over beef after a man was lynched by a mob in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, the government has said that it will review the export of meat to check if cow meat or beef is being illegally shipped out of the country as buffalo meat.

In the wake of the lynching case in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, the home ministry said there will be "zero tolerance" for incidents that "attempt to weaken the secular fabric of the nation and exploit religious sentiments". Mentioning Dadri - where a 50-year-old man was killed last week after rumours that he consumed beef - the advisory said the states ...

Controversial BJP lawmaker Sangeet Som today addressed a gathering of hundreds in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, which is tense after a man was lynched on Monday allegedly over rumours that he had stored and eaten beef. Prohibitory orders forbid the assembly of more than four people in one place in the village.

Sangeet Som, the BJP's controversial lawmaker in Uttar Pradesh, has been accused of violating the poll code after the police last night found CDs in a car he was using to campaign for next month's election.

The hearing in a case against BJP legislator Sangeet Som and others for allegedly blocking roads in Uttar Pradesh's Muzaffarnagar district during a protest in 2009 has been adjourned till December 22.

A charge sheet has been filed against Uttar Pradesh BJP leader Sangeet Som for allegedly violating the prohibitory orders imposed in Dadri's Bishada village, where a man was killed in a mob attack over rumours that he stored and consumed beef.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi is "angry" with party leaders who made incendiary statements in the aftermath of the Dadri killing over beef rumours and party chief Amit Shah today pulled up those involved, sources told NDTV.

NDTV has accessed documents that show Mr Som was associated with not just one but two meat processing and export companies.

Amit Sisodia and Deepak Raghav, both in their 20s, spend most of the day checking job sites and chatting with a group of friends on the internet. Most are graduates and all of them are unemployed.

Days after the Dadri killing, Samajwadi Party leader Mulayam Singh Yadav said those behind the 2013 Muzaffarnagar riots were involved in this case too. The conspiracy, he said, had been hatched by "three persons of a specific party" and the state will take stern action against the accused, "even if we have to sacrifice the government".

A week after a mob killed a Muslim man over rumours that he had beef in his house in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, senior union minister Arun Jaitley has said that such incidents affect the country's image and "amount to policy diversions."

As politics rages over beef after a man was lynched by a mob in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, the government has said that it will review the export of meat to check if cow meat or beef is being illegally shipped out of the country as buffalo meat.

In the wake of the lynching case in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, the home ministry said there will be "zero tolerance" for incidents that "attempt to weaken the secular fabric of the nation and exploit religious sentiments". Mentioning Dadri - where a 50-year-old man was killed last week after rumours that he consumed beef - the advisory said the states ...

Controversial BJP lawmaker Sangeet Som today addressed a gathering of hundreds in a village in Uttar Pradesh's Dadri, which is tense after a man was lynched on Monday allegedly over rumours that he had stored and eaten beef. Prohibitory orders forbid the assembly of more than four people in one place in the village.