UP Assembly elections 2017: AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi booked

Lucknow: A First Information Report (FIR) was lodged against AIMIM chief Asaduddin Owaisi on Tuesday for violating the Model Code of Conduct in poll-bound Uttar Pradesh.

Apart from Owaisi, All-India Majlis-e-Ittehad-ul Muslimeen (AIMIM) Assembly poll candidate Talat Khan has also been booked for violating the poll conduct. 

Additional Superintendent of Police Sanjay Singh said that posters of AIMIM were pasted on the walls on the walls of the power corporation property, religious places and private shops which led the police to file a complaint against them. 

Police have registered a case under section 171H of IPC (illegal payments in connection with an election), he said.

On Friday, the AIMIM began its campaign Uttar Pradesh from Kairana and released a list of its 11 candidates, including Masiulla from Kairana constituency, for the first phase of Uttar Pradesh Assembly polls.