Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani on Friday challenged the Gujarat authorities to arrest BJP MLA Gajendrasinh Parmar, who’s going through fees of rape and different associated offences, by March 27.
Mevani made the assertion from the ground of Gujarat Meeting whereas opposing a proposal to thank the Governor for his tackle to the Home and elevating the difficulty of ladies’s security in Gujarat.
On the difficulty of ladies’s security, Mevani first talked about an incident of Panchmahal district from a number of years in the past when a Dalit lady’s gangrape case was allegedly torn off by some police officers from the FIR guide, allegedly on the behest of some native individuals from a political celebration after they realised that three folks from the outfit had been named accused within the FIR.
Mevani mentioned that the Gujarat authorities didn’t change into a complainant in opposition to the policemen and solely initiated departmental inquiry in opposition to them. Mevani additional mentioned that an FIR within the matter was registered solely after a Dalit chief, Valjibhai Patel, raised the difficulty and “fought until the tip”.
“Is that this how girls are revered in Gujarat?” Mevani requested.
He then mentioned, “And subsequently, I wish to inform the state authorities: Earlier than this Meeting (session) ends on March 27 and by the point the solar units, arrest the BJP chief, Gajendrasinh Parmar, who’s a rape accused. I problem the Gujarat authorities from this discussion board.”
“An individual who (allegedly) commits rape, whichever celebration he might belong, why does the state authorities not arrest him?” he requested.
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A former minister within the Gujarat authorities, Parmar is the present Bharatiya Janata Occasion (BJP) MLA from Prantij constituency of Sabarkantha district.
The Gujarat authorities registered an FIR in opposition to Parmar at Sector 21 Police Station of Gandhinagar in October final 12 months after the matter went to Gujarat Excessive Courtroom. The FIR was registered below the costs of rape and prison intimidation and sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
In response to the FIR, the complainant had alleged that Parmar had known as her to his MLA quarters in Gandhinagar on July 30, 2020, and established bodily relations together 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, as per the grievance.
Sources mentioned that Parmar has been absent from the present price range session of Gujarat Meeting up to now.
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