Lucknow: Balrampur police on Monday arrested the former Samajwadi MP Party Rizwan Zaheer, his daughter (Zeba) and her husband Rais, along with the other three for the murder of the former Chair of the Tuslipur Nagar Pappu.
The murder, according to the police, was the result of competition related to the assembly selection of 2022.
The police also arrested three parliamentarians involved in the murder.
Feroz was killed near his house in Tulsipur on January 4 night.
SP Balrampur, Hemant Kutiyal, said Rizwan Zaheer lobbied tickets from the Jamajwadi party for his daughter from the tulipur assembly chair in Vidhan Sabha’s poll.
Feroz also pursued his nomination from the same seats from SP.
“Rizwan Zaheer through his sources in the party knows that Feroz is likely to get a ticket for the tulipur seat when his wife Lehkasha is also the seat of Pancar Nagar sitting and the couple has maintained a constituency for some time.
Therefore, Rizwan Zaheer gets Firoz eliminated,” SP said.
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