Adesh Chauhan

Adesh Chauhan is an Indian politician and member of the Bharatiya Janata Party. He is the member of the Uttarakhand Legislative Assembly from the BHEL Ranipur constituency in Haridwar district. He first competed in Legislative election in 2012 from Ranipur constituency. He was elected once again in 2017 for a second time in a row.

Adesh Chauhan Extortion Incident In February 2025, Adesh Chauhan, a Member of the Legislative Assembly (MLA) for BHEL Ranipur in Haridwar, became the target of an extortion scheme. The perpetrator, posing as Jay Shah—the son of India's Home Minister Amit Shah—demanded INR 5 lakhs. Chauhan, initially deceived by the similarity of the impersonator's voice to Jay Shah's, grew suspicious and alerted the authorities. The swift response led by SHO Naresh Singh Rathore resulted in the arrest of the impostor, Piyush Pant, along with two accomplices in Delhi. For further details, see The Hawk's full report.

Criminal Conviction

On May 26, 2025, Adesh Chauhan, BJP MLA from Haridwar's Ranipur constituency, and his niece Dipika Singh were sentenced to six months in jail by a special CBI court for wrongfully confining Singh's father-in-law at Gangnahar police station in June 2009. The court found that Chauhan and his niece, in collaboration with police personnel, unlawfully detained Dheer Singh Chauhan for two days and later booked him in a false dowry harassment case.

Electoral performance