VARANASI, April 27 -- A case has been registered against Apna Dal (K) leader and Sirathu (in Kaushambi district) MLA Pallavi Patel and dozens of her supporters for staging a dharna without permission, hindering government work and blocking roads in Varanasi on Saturday, said a police officer.

Deputy commissioner of police, Kashi zone, Gaurav Bansal told the media that the Patel had not taken permission for the dharna staged earlier in the day in protest against the alleged murder of a Class 12 student in Khushhal Nagar area under Shivpur police station here on Tuesday (April 22).

Patel, who became an MLA on a Samajwadi Party ticket, started the dharna when her party workers and she were allegedly stopped by police at Gurudham intersecti...