Mayawati booked after expelled BJP leader's family files FIR

A day after her party workers stormed the state capital in huge numbers to protest the derogatory remarks on her, BSP supremo Mayawati found herself at the receiving end.

On Friday, the family members of the expelled BJP leader Daya Shankar Singh got a case registered against Mayawati and other BSP leaders for using ''objectionable'' words for them during the protest. According to the police sources here, an FIR was registered at Hazratganj police station against Mayawati, senior BSP leader Naseemuddin Siddique, state BSP president Ram Achal Rajbhar and party national secretary Mewalal.

Sources said they have been booked under IPC sections 120 B (conspiracy), 153 A (promoting enmity between different groups on the grounds of religion, race etc), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of peace), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult modesty of a woman). 

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FIR was lodged after Singh's mother Tetari Devi and wife Swati Singh lodged separate complaints with the police accusing Mayawati and others of using foul language against them and Singh's minor daughter. ''We will investigate the matter and take appropriate action,'' said a senior police official here.

Singh's wife Swati on Friday sought to turn the tables on Mayawati by accusing her of ''encouraging'' her party leaders and workers to use foul language against her and her daughter. ''My daughter is traumatised...she had to take pills to sleep...she has also refused to go to school,'' Swati told reporters here. ''BSP leaders had demanded that we (me and my daughter) be sent to them...what have we done?...we are not in politics,'' she said. Singh's mother Tetari Devi also said that she was ''very upset'' after her daughter-in-law and grand daughter were publicly abused by the BSP leaders. ­