3 min learnSrinagarAug 12, 2026 07:11 AM IST
A BJP chief has been booked by the Jammu and Kashmir Police for extortion following the receipt of a grievance which alleged that he demanded cash from a contractor and threatened to have them detained underneath the Public Security Act (PSA) in the event that they refused to pay.
Syed Showkat Gayoor, who served because the get together district president for south Kashmir’s Pulwana, has been booked for wrongful restraint, extortion and prison intimidation.
Instantly after the event, BJP suspended him from all organisational posts and tasks until the “finalisation of disciplinary proceedings” in opposition to him.
In his grievance to the police, Mohammad Yasin Ganie accused Gayoor of interfering and obstructing him and his drivers, threatening them and demanding “unlawful gratification as a situation for permitting the complainant to proceed the lawful work”.
“The complainant is engaged within the extraction and transportation of soil for the work… the mentioned work is being carried out strictly in accordance with the permission granted by the competent authorities,” the grievance learn.
“…The complainant is being repeatedly pressurised to make illegal funds to the accused. On a number of events, the accused demanded a sum of Rs 5,00,000 from the complainant as an unlawful gratification/extortion quantity and conveyed, in substance, that except the complainant complied together with his demand, he wouldn’t allow the complainant to proceed his lawful work”.
The grievance learn that Gayoor used the specter of motion underneath the Public Security Act as a way of intimidating and coercing the complainant into complying together with his illegal financial calls for.
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“The accused has additional threatened the complainant that he would use his place/affect and get PSA slapped in opposition to the complainant if the complainant didn’t oblige his unlawful calls for,” the grievance mentioned.
The grievance, which makes a part of the police FIR, additional reads that the complainant was compelled to pay Rs 54,000 to the accused in two installments of Rs 50,000 and Rs 4000 in November final 12 months.
Later, police booked Gayoor underneath sections 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 308(2) (extortion), 308(3) placing an individual in concern of any damage to commit extortion, and 351(2) (prison intimidation).
The BJP has stripped Gayoor of his publish as District President Pulwama. “On the strategies of Adv. Sunil Sethi, Chairman, Disciplinary Committee BJP J&Okay, and in session with Sh. Sat Sharma (CA) Ji, President BJP J&Okay, MP and Sh. Mohmmad Anwar Khan, Basic Secretary, BJP J&Okay, disciplinary proceedings are hereby initiated in opposition to Er. Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi, District President, BJP Pulwama, in view of the FIR alleging extortion registered in opposition to him,” the FIR reads.
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“Pending finalisation of the disciplinary proceedings, Er. Syed Showkat Gayoor Andrabi is hereby suspended from all organisational posts and tasks of the Bharatiya Janata Get together, together with the publish of District President, Pulwama, with speedy impact”.
BJP has mentioned the get together reiterates its “dedication to sustaining the best requirements of self-discipline, integrity and morality in public life”.
