Yakub Qureshi, former minister of BSP government, arrested in Delhi along with his son

Yakub Qureshi, who was a minister in the BSP government in Uttar Pradesh, has been arrested from Delhi today. IG Meerut Range had placed a reward of 50-50 thousand on Yakub Qureshi and son Imran. The SOG team of Meerut has arrested the accused father-son late on Friday night from Chandni Chowk police station area of ​​Delhi. On March 31, 2022, the police raided Yakub Qureshi's factory on Hapur Road. Where the work of meat packing was going on illegally.

The police had registered a case against 17 people including Yakub Qureshi, his wife Sanjeeda Begum and sons Imran and Firoz. A few months before this, a meat factory owned by former state minister and Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) leader Haji Yakub Qureshi was raided in Meerut. An official told that the factory owned by the former minister was running illegally in Meerut.

Yakub Qureshi contested the 2019 Lok Sabha elections in Uttar Pradesh and lost to BJP MP Rajendra Agarwal by a narrow margin. In the year 2007, he was a minister in the BSP government in UP. Qureshi had hit headlines for announcing a bounty on the head of a Danish cartoonist who had drawn a caricature of Prophet Muhammad in 2006. Qureshi was elected from the Meerut seat in 2007 as a UPUDF candidate, while he later joined the Bahujan Samaj Party. In the year 2012, he again joined the Rashtriya Lok Dal (RLD).