A Samajwadi Party leader has been arrested in Delhi in connection with the Loni assault case.
A team of Ghaziabad police arrested Ummed Pahalwan Idrisi along with another person near Delhi’s Lok Narayan Jai Prakash Hospital.
Searches were underway for Pahalwan in Ghaziabad who was booked by police in connection with the circulation of a “communal” video related to the assault on an elderly Muslim man.
Ghaziabad Senior Superintendent of Police Amit Kumar Pathak said the district police wanted Pehelwan to appear before it and record his statement in connection with the case.