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Uttarakhand minister's husband arrested from Jhansi Uttar Pradesh

Prithviraj Singh
Dehradun, Nov 7 (UNI) Uttarakhand Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya's husband Girdhari Lal Sahu has been arrested from Jhansi in Uttar Pradesh in an alleged signature forgery case filed by her, police said on Saturday.
Sahu will now spend Diwali in Jail.
Uttarakhand police on Friday arrested Girdhari Lal Sahu and his nephew Satendra Rathore who had been absconding for more than 20 days following a complaint lodged by the minister Rekha Arya on October 15.
Following a omplaint by the minister at Dehradun Cantonment Police Station an FIR was lodged and Sahu was booked under relevant sections of BNS for forging her signatue to prepare fake papers, threatening to kill her, abusing her with caste slurs, physical torture, keeping the minister in the dark about his first marriage and other charges.
Arya had alleged that Sahu forged her signature to falsify papers and remove her as director in four companies she was associated with.
Following her complaint, an SIT was constituted headed by Dehradun SP Rural Jaya Baloni on the direction of SSP Parmendra Singh Dobhal to investigate the matter.
After he was booked by Dehradun police, Sahu had been absconding along with his nephew Surendra Rathore but he kept issuing statements in social media from undisclosed locations.
SIT in its investigation questioned several close associates of Sahu and other persons linked with him. SIT discovered that Sahu conspired with Satendra Rathore to forge papers for replacing Rekha Arya with Rathore in all four companies.
SIT also unravelled that Sahu had a long criminal record with as many as 50 cases pending against him in Bareilly and other districts of Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand.
According to Dehradun police, Sahu was arrested in Jhansi while Rathore was nabbed from Bareilly in Uttar Pradesh. Besides nearly 50 pending cases against him, Sahu was also jailed several times in the past.
Dobhal confirmed that Sahu and his nephew were arrested om Friday as the police had been hunting for him in Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. Uttarakhand police made several raids in different parts of the himalayan state and Uttar Pradesh to arrest Sahu during the probe.
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