Lucknow: A convoy of Karan Bhushan Singh, the BJP’s candidate from the Kaiserganj parliamentary seat of Uttar Pradesh, allegedly mowed down two youths and caused grievous injuries to an elderly woman on Wednesday (May 29).The incident added more woes for Karan’s father and BJP lawmaker Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh, against whom a Delhi court recently framed charges in the case where is accused of sexually assaulting women wrestlers.Police have filed an FIR in the incident, which has the number plate of the car involved in the incident but does not name any accused.They did not confirm whether Karan was in the convoy at the time of the incident.There was heavy police deployment at the scene after the accident. Police sent the two injured youths, Shahzad (24) and Rehan (17), to the community health centre, where they were declared dead.According to Gonda police, they received information about the accident around 9 am. “A Fortuner car and a bike collapsed on the Colonelganj-Huzoorpur Road in Gonda district on Wednesday,” the police said.Radhey Shyam Rai, an additional superintendent of police, told The Wire that the police apprehended the Fortuner car’s driver and seized the vehicle. He stated: “We have sent the bodies of the deceased for autopsy and police are interrogating the driver to ascertain more information about the accident.”“The driver fled the accident scene and left the Fortuner car behind,” the police said.Police did not confirm if Karan Bhushan Singh (pictured here) was in the convoy at the time of the incident. Photo: Karan Bhushan Singh/Facebook.The Fortuner car is registered in the name of an education institute in Gonda. Police are yet to ascertain the name of the institute’s owner.According to the first information report filed in the case, the deceased were cousins and were on their way to a medical store when a car travelling at a high speed and bearing the number plate ‘UP 32 HW 1800’ hit their bike, a Splendor Super with the number plate ‘UP 41 AM 9088’, from the opposite direction it was travelling in.In addition, police said that the Fortuner car also hit an elderly woman, Sita Devi (60), severely injuring her.The police have registered a case under sections 279 (driving or riding a vehicle negligently, thereby endangering human life), 304-A (the death of any person by doing any rash or negligent act not amounting to culpable homicide), 427 (commits mischief and thereby causes loss or damage to the amount of fifty rupees) of the Indian Penal Code, and section 184 of the Motor Vehicle Act (violating traffic rules through rash or dangerous driving).They did not mention any names in the FIR.Initially, the police were evading registering an FIR, but after the deaths of the two youths, presumably under pressure from locals and the deceased’s family, they registered a case.Brij Bhushan Singh, the incumbent BJP lawmaker from Kaiserganj and former chief of the Wrestling Federation of India, was unavailable for comment when The Wire contacted him.Karan’s family is going through a political crisis. His father became embroiled in controversy when some well-known female wrestlers made allegations of sexual assault against him and protested against him in Delhi.On May 10, additional chief metropolitan magistrate Priyanka Rajpoot of the Rouse Avenue Court, Delhi, formally charged Brij Bhushan Singh with sexual harassment, stalking, outraging the modesty of women and criminal intimidation in a case involving five women wrestlers.The court order charges Brij Bhushan Singh under sections 354A (sexual harassment), 354 (outraging modesty), and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.Presumably to avoid controversy, the BJP did not field Brij Bhushan Singh for the Kaiserganj Lok Sabha seat. But the BJP top brass bowed down to Brij Bhushan Singh’s influence and clout in and around Kaiserganj, and fielded his son, Karan Bhushan Singh, from the seat.Karan’s elder brother, Prateek Bhushan Singh, is also a BJP MLA representing the Gonda Sadar constituency in the Uttar Pradesh assembly.Kaiserganj, the constituency in which Karan is running, voted on May 20 in the fifth phase of the Lok Sabha polls, and the Samajwadi Party fielded Rambhagat Mishra against him.In a similar incident on October 3, 2021, hundreds of farmers in the Tikonia area of Uttar Pradesh’s Lakhimpur Kheri district returned after protesting against the three controversial farm laws. In this incident, Ashish Mishra, son of Union junior home minister Ajay Mishra “Teni”, drove a car convoy over four protesting farmers and a journalist.Under pressure from farmers, the Narendra Modi government withdrew the three farm laws.