Updated On: 04 November, 2023 08:29 AM IST | Lucknow | PTI
According to the statement, the STF team found Pandey guilty and arrested him on Friday from near Bhitaria of Ram Sanehi Ghat police station area of Barabanki district

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The Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday arrested former Shiv Sena MLA Pawan Pandey in connection with a case of cheating and forgery from Barabanki district, an official statement said.
Champa Devi had registered a case alleging that after her husband died in 2020, Pandey and his associates, with the intention to grab her land worth Rs 8 crores, gave an intoxicating injection to her son Ajay Singh and got a fake agreement made, showing Rs 20 lakhs as the land`s value, the STF said in a statement.