Airports and exit points across the country have been put on high alert to prevent UP Minister Gayatri Prajapati, who has been booked for rape, from trying to flee the country.

Prajapati has been charged with raping a woman and attacking her daughter. Intelligence agencies have learnt that the Samajwadi Party minister, who is also contesting the Uttar Pradesh assembly election from Amethi, plans to leave the country to avoid arrest. According to official sources, a Letter of Cancellation (LC) will soon be opened against him and all airports have been alerted to prevent the 49-year-old Prajapati from fleeing abroad. A letter of cancellation is a technical term used for alerting immigration authorities about any possible move by a suspect to leave the country. Whenever the passport of a suspect comes for immigration clearance at any exit point of the country, the computer screen warns the official to not let the person leave. BJP ATTACKS SAMAJWADI PARTY OVER PRAJAPATI CASE The Prajapati episode has given the BJP fresh ammunition to hit out at the Samajwadi Party over the deteriorating law and order situation in Uttar Pradesh. Earlier on Friday, BJP chief Amit Shah hit out at the Samajwadi Party government for not promptly arresting Prajapati and slammed Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav for campaigning for Prajapati. Akhilesh Yadav has time till March 11 to arrest Prajapati. Otherwise when we form the government, we will hunt him down and arrest him, BJP chief Amit Shah has said. The BJP chief said, "I saw on a TV channel that Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav was asking Gayatri Prajapati to surrender. What is the UP police doing? A women goes to every rank of police but nothing happens. Then she approaches the Supreme Court, which orders the UP police to file an FIR. But for the next 6 days, Prajapati goes on campaigning and later simply disappears. And now the chief minister is appealing him to surrender."

Prime Minister Narendra Modi has also attacked the SP's election slogan 'kaam bolta hai' in the light of the rape allegation against Prajapati.

Meanwhile, the Sashastra Seema Bal (SSB), guarding Uttar Pradesh's border with Nepal, has also been alerted about the possibility of Prajapati fleeing the country.

The UP Police on February 18 registered an FIR against the ruling Samajwadi Party politician, who has been at large, for allegedly gangraping a woman and molesting her daughter with his aides.

The victims had knocked at the doors of the Supreme Court, on whose directive an FIR has been registered by the UP Police against the ruling Samajwadi Party politician.

AKHILESH PROMISES COOPERATION

Meanwhile, Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav has assured that he will fully cooperate in the case in accordance with the directions of the Supreme Court.

"The matter is in the Supreme Court. The government will fully cooperate and go by its order", Yadav said in response to a question on the case at a press conference in Lucknow.

After state BJP president Keshav Prasad Maurya said that Prajapati has been hiding in the Chief Minister's house, Akhilesh asked journalists to follow him with their cameras to check for themselves.

AMIT SHAH CONFIDENT OF BJP's CHANCES IN UP

Sounding confident about the BJP's chances of winning Uttar Pradesh, Shah said, "Based on the information that we had gathered from the ground, it was clear that the people of Uttar Pradesh had given us the required mandate. In the last two phases, we will inch towards a two-thirds majority. At times I feel that people are more charged and enthusiastic about forming the BJP government than our cadres." "Youths in the state are angry with Samajwadi Party as unemployment is at an all-time high and corruption has permeated to every sphere", he said.

The BJP chief also targetted Mayawati's Bahujan Samaj Party, saying the BSP was talking of a goonda-mukt UP, but how was that possible while she had Mukhtar Ansari and Afzal Siddiqui on her side.

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