Varanasi: Mirzapur police arrested a truck owner, Raju Chaubey, for allegedly threatening and blackmailing additional regional transport officer (administration/enforcement) Vivek Kumar Shukla after failing to pressurise him for waiving road tax.
Inspector Katra Kotwali Swaminath Prasad said, “On the complaint of ARTO a named FIR against Raju Chaubey has been lodged under section 186 (voluntarily obstruct any public servant in the discharge of his public functions), 500 (defamation) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of IPC.”
“When police raided Chaube’s house he tried to jump from the roof to escape. In this bid, Chaubey’ got his leg fractured and was admitted to district hospital under police custody. Police are trying to identifying Chaubey’s accomplice, who has also been made an accused in this case,” he added.