Two days after BJP MLA and former state minister Gajendrasinh Parmar was booked for rape and prison intimidation in a case filed in Gandhinagar, the Gujarat authorities on Monday submitted earlier than the Excessive Courtroom that the FIR was logged “voluntarily” .
The submission was made by Extra Advocate Normal Mitesh Amin earlier than the court docket of Justice Niral Mehta.
Justice Mehta then reserved the passing of the order until October 22.
Notably, the FIR below the costs of rape and prison intimidation and sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was registered on Saturday.
The present case is registered at Sector 21 police station in Gandhinagar below Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 506 (punishment for prison intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
Whereas the FIR is listed as ‘delicate’, an official from Sector-21 police station of Gandhinagar confirmed the event to The Indian Categorical.
Regardless that the FIR could have been filed voluntarily by the Gujarat authorities by means of the Gandhinagar Police, the event, nonetheless, got here solely after the Gujarat Excessive Courtroom, in three hearings in October, urged the state to first file an FIR after which examine the matter.
In line with the FIR, the complainant had alleged that Parmar, the incumbent MLA of Prantij, had known as her to his MLA quarters in Gandhinagar on July 30, 2020, and established bodily relations along with her on the pretext of marrying her. She alleged within the FIR that the MLA, subsequently, began ignoring her cellphone calls.
Upon attending her name as soon as, he allegedly used casteist remarks and threatened to get the girl kidnapped and harassed if she talked about their relationship, the FIR acknowledged.
In 2021, the girl moved a particular prison software within the excessive court docket, requesting that the police be directed to register an FIR.
