varanasi mirzapur police has arrested a taxi driver amjad khan 27 on charges of murder and breaching peace after he allegedly mowed down his passenger rajesh dhar dubey 50 following a dispute over praising prime minister narendra modi and chief minister yogi adityanath near mahokhar village of the district on mondayrajeshs brother rakesh dhar dubey in his police complaint filed on monday alleged that while travelling in amjads taxi he rajesh and some other persons were having a discussion on the countrys political scenario suddenly the driver started abusing the prime minister and chief minister when objected amjad pushed rajesh out of the suv and crushed him under its wheels killing him on the spotsp mirzapur santosh kumar mishra on tuesday said on the basis of a written complaint of the victims brother rakesh dhar dubey an fir was lodged against amjad khan under sections 302 murder and 504 intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace on monday after six hours of the incident vindhyachal police arrested amjadduring initial interrogation amjad claimed that while each passenger was asking to drop them at their doorstep he suggested they deboard at one place as he had to meet the person who had booked his vehicle amjad claimed that after alighting the suv rajesh turned back all of a sudden fell on the road and came under the wheels of the suv mishra told toi adding that the police were yet to come across evidence to suggest that it was a murder and resulted in an altercation over praising the pm and cmwe are investigating all the aspects of the incident he addedrakesh a native of kolahi village under vindhyachal police station in his police complaint further stated that after attending the marriage of his son he along with rajesh dhirendra pandey and lalji mishra were returning home in amjads taxi during the journey we were discussing the countrys political scenario which somehow upset amjad and he started hurling abusive words for the pm and cm when we opposed it amjad pushed rajesh out of the suv vehicle and crushed him under its wheels rakesh mentioned in the complaintbefore we could understand anything amjad abandoned the vehicle and ran away shouting that he wanted to kill rajesh in mirzapur itself but got the opportunity near mahokhar village rakesh added in the complaint