Bhadohi (UP), March 28 Three people, including the brother of a former BSP district president, have been booked for allegedly cheating a man here by promising him a government job for his relative and later threatening and assaulting him, police said on Saturday.
According to Gopiganj Station House Officer Shailesh Kumar Rai, the FIR was registered based on a complaint filed by Ashish Kumar, a medical store owner from Saripur village, on Friday.
The complainant alleged that Vitthalpur residents Daya Shankar Gautam, his son Deepankar Gautam, and another person Om Prakash Yadav allegedly took Rs 6.5 lakh from him between April 9 and December 7, 2025, by promising a clerical job for his brother at a government school in Prayagraj, SHO Rai said.
Daya Shankar is the brother of former district president of Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP), Baijnath Gautam.
When the job did not materialise even after two months after the promised date, the accused asked Kumar to collect the submitted documents from the BSP office.
When he later demanded the money back, the accused allegedly called him again to the BSP office, assaulted him and threatened to implicate him in a false case under the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, besides issuing death threats, the SHO said, quoting the FIR.
Kumar took the help of a relative serving in the police department and lodged a complaint.
The FIR was registered under sections of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita pertaining to criminal breach of trust, voluntarily causing hurt, intentional insult and criminal intimidation, the SHO said.