Poet Munawwar Rana’s son was arrested in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday for allegedly staging an attack on himself to implicate his relatives ...
Poet Munawwar Rana’s son was arrested in Uttar Pradesh on Wednesday for allegedly staging an attack on himself to implicate his relatives in a false case, reported The Indian Express, citing the Raebareli Police. Twenty-eight-year-old Tabrez Rana has been sent to judicial custody.
The police have already arrested four people in the case. “When he [Tabrez Rana] went missing, the police moved court, and obtained a warrant against him,” Additional Superintendent of Police Vishwajeet Srivastava said. “On Wednesday, a police team arrested Tabrez from Lucknow.”
On June 28, Rana had filed a complaint at the Kotwali police station, alleging that he was attacked by two unidentified men, the police said. Rana had said in his complaint that he suspected his uncle Shakeel Rana and his son Yashaar Rana to be behind the attack, according to The Times of India.
The police said that when they scanned the CCTV footage of the area where Tabrez Rana was allegedly attacked, they found several discrepancies, reported PTI. Raebareli Superintendent of Police Shlok Kumar said that Rana was seen to be alone in a vehicle at the time of the incident but had claimed that he was accompanied by another person.
The police said after investigation they found out that Rana had sold some of his ancestral...
