A half-a-kilometre stretch of a road being laid by the public works department (PWD), connecting Shahjahanpur to Budaun, was dug up with the help of bulldozers allegedly by a representative of a BJP MLA for non-payment of "commission" by the contractor in this Uttar Pradesh district. An FIR has been registered on a complaint from Ramesh Singh, the manager of the construction company, against 15-20 unidentified people. The complainant has alleged that one of the accused is the representative of Veer Vikram Singh, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MLA from Katra.