A ruling Samajwadi Party leader who enjoys minister of state (MoS) rank in Uttar Pradesh, his son and about two dozen supporters allegedly vandalised the office of Hindi daily ‘Dainik Jagran’ in Shamli district Tuesday, officials said.

UP State Food and Essential Commodities Corporation Limited chairman Riyasat Rana, his son Bilal and others assaulted the peon and ransacked the office allegedly after the newspaper published a report about “a politician’s son had raped a minor girl for a year on pretext of marriage and forced her to undergo an abortion”.