It looks like a black cloud is hovering over reputation of U P government. The dust of the Madhumita Shukla murder case hasn’t settled yet when another MLA was arrested for sexual harassment. BSP MLA Sribhagwan Sharma alias Guddu Pandit was arrested in Noida’s Gautam Buddha Nagar on Sunday for allegedly hounding and threatening to kill his paramour Shital Birla, a research scholar at Agra University.

Shital, in her compliant, said that she had an intimate relationship with Sharma for the last three years. They married in a temple a year ago but at that time he didn’t tell her he was married and had two kids. When she came to know this truth she tried to break up with him. But Sharma forced her to stay her as his mistress.

Shital also said that she and her family members were physically tortured and threatened by him. Sharma is alleged to have started plotting Shital’s murder when she started mounting pressure on him for a formal marriage. “He wanted to keep me as his concubine. This was just not acceptable to me,” Shital said.

“When I asked for a proper marriage, he started threatening to kill me. I was sexually exploited and mentally tortured...I was raped several times,” she said. However Sharma feels that this is all conspiracy by his enemies. He further said  that he has full faith in law and order  of U P.  

In this case, the Mayawati administration acted swiftly. UP Police sources told DNA that after Shital Birla levelled serious charges against the BSP MLA before the media in Agra on Saturday, Mayawati called him to her Delhi residence on Sunday where he was arrested by Noida police. The swift working of UP government can give a thread of hope to the already hanging position of the U P administration.