Shrikant Tyagi’s wife says he was with BJP after party denies link; alleges harassment
Arrested self-proclaimed BJP leader Shrikant Tyagi’s wife Anu Tyagi on Wednesday said that her husband was a member of the saffron party.
She also said that her family was being harassed at the behest of BJP MP Mahesh Sharma.
When asked about Mahesh Sharma’s denial of the BJP having any link to the BJP, she said: “My husband was a BJP member. This entire drama is being played out at the behest of Mahesh Tiwari. He abused the police commissioner. That’s why they [the police] were behaving like that with us.”
“My husband would have surrendered the first day. But we were only waiting for a lawyer so that we could take appropriate legal recourse. Had I not been detained at the police station, my husband would have surrendered the very next day as I could have engaged a lawyer and sought legal help,” she said. She also said that Shrikant Tyagi had surrendered and was not caught in any raid.
She alleged that her staffers were subjected to third-degree torture. Anu Tyagi also said that her children were being harassed.
Shrikant Tyagi was arrested by Noida police on Tuesday for abusing and assaulting a woman at his housing society in Noida. His arrest came a day after bulldozers tore down the illegal construction outside his house at the Grand Omaxe housing society in Noida’s Sector-93B.
Anu Tyagi said: “I was not tortured physically, but I was harassed mentally. They [the police] called me names and misbehaved in every way possible, despite the fact that I was fully cooperating in the investigation. Where is Yogiji now? Am I not a woman?”
“At the police station, I begged them to let me go as my kids were alone at home. No cop was here either,” she said.
Earlier, the Noida Police said Shrikant Tyagi was using a VVIP sticker on his vehicle given to him by SP leader Swami Prasad Maurya, a claim that Maurya denied.
“The sticker on his car was provided by Swami Prasad Maurya. The state emblem was made by him himself and the purpose was to create an atmosphere of fear,” Alok Singh, Commissioner of Police, Noida, said on Tuesday.