Driver of Lalitpur CMO hangs self, accuses minister of extortion in video

Jhansi: The suicide of the driver of Lalitpur CMO on the intermittent night of Sunday and Monday took a different angle after a video went viral on Tuesday evening in which he claimed that he had to pay Rs 20 lakh to the minister of state for labour and employment exchange Mannu Kori in exchange of saving himself from a sex racket case.
In the viral video, he also said that apart from Kori, who is also the MLA from Mehroni seat of Lalitpur district, few more persons were trying to extort money from him.After the video went viral, Lalitpur DM Yogesh Kumar Shukla ordered a magisterial inquiry under SDM Pali Avinash Tripathi into the entire incident on Tuesday night.
As per details, Rajkumar Dubey, 55, worked as a driver of Lalitpur CMO. A few years ago, he was implicated in a sex scandal and served a year in jail for the same. He was set free in January 2019. On the intermittent night of Sunday and Monday, Dubey died by suicide at his house.
On Tuesday, the matter took a new turn after a video, which was shot by Dubey himself hours before he hanged himself, went viral. In the 1.43 minute video, Dubey is seen saying that he was going to take the extreme step as he was falsely implicated in the sex racket case by Chandrapal Singh and Rajendra Singh. To save him from the case, state minister Mannu Kori had demanded Rs 20 lakh from Dubey, which he had paid but still had to go to jail.
He is seen further saying that two more persons Brijesh and Manoj are demanding Rs 50,000 from him which he is unable to pay. Apart from this, one Pappu Khan, along with Rajendra Singh, is constantly pressuring him to pay Rs 4.5 lakh, and has got his house forcibly registered in his wife’s name.
After the video went viral, the DM issued a statement that he has ordered a magisterial enquiry into the incident and that based on the findings, further action would be taken. Later, a video statement of minister Kori was also issued in which he said that the allegations against him are completely false and baseless and this is an attempt to malign his clean image. He also said that he never met Dubey, nor does he know him.
Meanwhile, AAP leader Sanjay Singh, in his tweet on Wednesday, demanded action against Kori. Activist Nutan Thakur on Wednesday demanded an FIR against all the accused including Kori and said that magisterial enquiry was not sufficient in this case. She wrote to ACS (home), DGP and other officers for the same.