The Special Task Force of the Uttar Pradesh Police on Friday arrested former Shiv Sena MLA Pawan Pandey in connection with a case of cheating and forgery from Barabanki district, an official statement said.

Champa Devi had registered a case alleging that after her husband died in 2020, Pandey and his associates, with the intention to grab her land worth Rs 8 crores, gave an intoxicating injection to her son Ajay Singh and got a fake agreement made, showing Rs 20 lakhs as the land's value, the STF said in a statement.