An FIR has been registered against a Shahjahanpur resident, Satyaveer Singh, and Samajwadi Party (SP) candidate, Neeraj Maurya, for allegedly forging Bahujan Samaj Party (BSP) nomination papers. Abid Ali, the official BSP candidate, filed a complaint alleging that Singh falsely claimed to be the BSP nominee by forging signatures and stamps on his papers. An investigation is underway, but no arrests have been made.