Uttarakhand Minister Rekha Arya’s Husband Arrested In UP After 3 Weeks On The Run

Uttarakhand Minister Rekha Arya (left) and her husband Girdhari Lal Sahu (right)

Girdhari Lal Sahu, husband of Uttarakhand Cabinet Minister Rekha Arya, was arrested in Uttar Pradesh’s Jhansi on Friday, more than three weeks after an FIR was registered against him on the minister’s complaint, police said on Saturday.

Dehradun Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Pramendra Singh Dobal said Sahu, against whom a non-bailable warrant had been issued, was arrested by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) constituted to investigate the case.

His associate, Satendra Rathore, was also arrested in Bareilly, Uttar Pradesh, Dobal added.

Sahu had been on the run since October 15, when an FIR was registered against him at the Cantt police station in Dehradun. The charges include assault, fraud, use of caste-based slurs and conspiracy to commit murder.

In her complaint, Arya, Uttarakhand's Minister for Women Empowerment and Child Development, alleged that Sahu concealed his first marriage and the existence of his children when he married her in 2004. She claimed that she discovered the truth only after their children were born.

Arya further accused her husband of using caste-based slurs against her in the presence of staff members. She also alleged that he conspired to remove…

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