Fully satisfied with U.P. Chief Minister’s assurances, says Kanpur trader’s wife

Deceased Manish Gupta’s wife Meenakshi Gupta has accused police of assaulting, murdering her husband in Gorakhpur

The wife of Kanpur trader Manish Gupta who died during a police check in a hotel at Gorakhpur said on Thursday that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath had accepted all her demands — better compensation, a government job and shifting of the case to her home district.

Meanwhile, Samajwadi Party chief Akhilesh Yadav visited the trader’s family in Kanpur and announced that his party would provide them a support of ₹20 lakh. He demanded that the government provide ₹2 crore as compensation and conduct a probe under a sitting judge of the Allahabad High Court.

Meenakshi Gupta, who accused the policemen of assaulting and murdering her husband in Gorakhpur on Monday, said she met Mr. Adityanath and that he “deeply and properly understood” her case and situation. “I am fully satisfied,” said Ms. Gupta to a news channel, adding that the Chief Minister had accepted her demand for a job and had himself offered to shift the case to Kanpur. Ms. Gupta was later appointed as an OSD in the Kanpur Development Authority. The government had earlier announced an ex gratia of ₹10 lakh to the family.