New Delhi: Ashish Pandey, former BSP lawmaker’s son who is wanted for waving a gun at a five-star hotel in south Delhi over the weekend, surrendered before a Patiala House courts judge in Delhi on Thursday morning. The court has remanded him in police custody for one day.
Pandey has been on the run since Monday when a video, which shows him brandishing a gun at the entrance of the hotel, made headlines.
“It is being projected as if I am a wanted terrorist and police across the nation is looking for me… A look out circular has been issued against me,” Pandey said in a video message put out minutes before he reached the court.
He insisted that though he pulled out his gun, he never aimed the firearm at anyone.
The Lucknow realtor blamed the media for showing only one side of the story and insisted that people should see the hotel’s closed circuit television camera, or CCTV, footage also.
“It will show that he (complainant) had threatened me,” he said, suggesting that he had been targeted because his father and brother were in politics. “It is not a crime to be son, or brother of a politician,” Pandey said.