Businessman, who made bribe charge against Yogi's aide, is under mental stress

The Uttar Pradesh police on Friday said that a businessman who had charged a senior official with demanding bribe from him was under mental pressure and had also given a written clarification in this regardAbhishek Gupta was called for interrogation this morning and he told us that he had taken a loan of Rs 1 crore from banks and other sources for opening a petrol pump and had to pay Rs 1 lakh instalment monthly Senior Superintendent of Police Deepak Kumar saidHe said that he is unemployed and his mental condition is not strong and had wrongly taken the name of BJP leaders for influencing senior officialshe has also given a written explanation after which Abhishek Gupta has been handed over to his grandfather the SSP saidThe police had acted against the Lucknowbased businessman after a complaint by the UP BJP office that he was putting pressure on bureaucrats dropping names of the partys officebearers to get his work doneBut the opposition Samawadi Party has questioned why the original bribery allegation against IAS officer S P Goyal who is principal secretary to Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath is not being probedGupta had earlier written to Governor Ram Naik alleging that the IAS officer had demanded a bribe to clear a file relating to his petrol pumpThe governor in turn wrote to Adityanath about the complaintUttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath has directed Chief Secretary Rajive Kumar to inform the state government about the factual status in the entire episode pertaining to Abhishek Gupta who had wanted to install a petrol pump in Hardoi district a state government spokesperson saidIn his letter to Adityanath which also surfaced on social media Naik asked the chief minister to take appropriate action over the complaint against his principal secretaryGupta accused Goyal of demanding Rs 25 lakh as bribe for providing land to widen a road leading to his petrol pump at Raiso in Hardoi district the governor said in his letterA copy of Naiks April 30 letter to Adityanath was sent to complainant Gupta as wellGupta had emailed his complaint to the governor on April 18 saying an oil company had approved the petrol pump and he wanted land for widening a road leading to itIt said an application for this was pending before Goyal and this had delayed the pumps opening Goyal said that he will reject the file if he wasnt paid Rs 25 lakh according to the businessmanI said that I am not in a position to pay since I have already taken a loan I had tried to record his conversation He saw it and scolded me and told me to leave the place the businessman complained But the ruling BJP sought police action against the businessman himselfBharat Dikshit the incharge of BJPs state headquarters yesterday wrote to the Lucknow SSP seeking an FIR against GuptaDikshit accused Gupta of pressuring officers to get inappropriate work by falsely taking the names of BJP office bearersSamajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav has sought a probe by the Central Bureau of InvestigationHe expressed surprise over the police quickly detaining the complainant rather than showing alacrity in probing his allegation that he was asked for a bribeHe said the same sections of the IPC were applicable to those who demand or offer a bribeCatch up on all the latest Crime National International and Hatke news here Also download the new midday Android and iOS apps to get latest updatesThis story has been sourced from a third party syndicated feed agencies Midday accepts no responsibility or liability for its dependability trustworthiness reliability and data of the text Midday managementmiddaycom reserves the sole right to alter delete or remove without notice the content in its absolute discretion for any reason whatsoever