ED Raids Premises of Jailed Samajwadi Party MLA Irfan Solanki in UP

Lucknow: Officials of the Enforcement Directorate (ED) raided the premises of Samajwadi Party’s jailed MLA Irfan Solanki in Uttar Pradesh’s Kanpur on Thursday.

ED also searched the premises of Solanki’s brother, Arshad. Irfan Solanki is in jail for the past year in a case in which a woman accused him of attempting to encroach upon a patch of land.

Till now, 17 cases have been filed against Solanki. The SP MLA is booked under several cases including plot disputes, arson, air travel with a fake Aadhaar card, and giving fake Indian citizenship to Bangladeshi citizens.

Earlier, the court had dismissed Solanki’s application to cast a vote in the recently concluded Rajya Sabha elections.