Police Arrest Suspect in Attack on Block Pramukh in Uttar Pradesh

Meanwhile, on the information of the informer, the police arrested him from the Varanasi-Gorakhpur road near Pyari village on Friday morning. Five named accused in the case have been sent to jail so far, while a search was on for three others. Advocate Anil Kumar Singh said that Saidpur block pramukh Hira Singh Yadav was sitting in his room at the Saidpur regional panchayat office on the evening of June 15 when the assailants attacked him with the butt of a gun, injuring him seriously. On the complaint of the victim block pramukh, an FIR was registered against eight persons, including the main accused Devraj Singh Thakur, named and some unidentified persons.