Tag : Tortured

Noida: Shrikant Tyagi has been attending Bharatiya Janata Party events but the party abandoned him since his spat with a woman last week, his wife Anu Tyagi has claimed.  Anu, who has been twice detained by the police for questioning since last Friday, alleged she was mentally tortured and her family harassed during the whole episode.  The Noida police, involved in the investigations, have denied the allegations.  Tyagi identifies himself as a national executive member of the BJP's Kisan Morcha and national co-coordinator of its Yuva Samiti, but the party has maintained that he was not its member.  When asked about her husband's association with the BJP, Anu Tyagi told PTI: “I have seen him attending programmes, events and rallies of the party. I wonder in what capacity he attended those events! Now he has been abandoned. I don't know why and I can't say why.”  She said her husband has been into social work and has been active from Noida to Ghaziabad and Modi Nagar. ”If he stopped over at a market in these areas, hundreds of people would gather there immediately. Such has been his social connection,” the housewife claimed.  Tyagi was arrested on Tuesday from Meerut after being on the run for four days and since he got into a row with a woman in his housing society reportedly over planting of trees. A video of the incident that was circulated widely on social media showed the woman, a co-resident at Grand Omaxe society in Sector 93B, being abused and pushed around by Tyagi. He has been booked in three cases -- assaulting and abusing the woman, cheating, and under the Gangsters Act, according to officials.  Anu Tyagi admitted that the language used by her husband was inappropriate but alleged that the argument was triggered by t ...