The girl accused within the alleged forgery case targetting BJP MLA Kaushik Vekariya refused to endure a medical examination Tuesday necessitated to “corroborate” her allegations that she was “tortured” in police custody, The Indian Specific has learnt.
“We went publish midday (Tuesday) to her home to get her medical examination performed because it was binding, given the allegation that she was tortured. Her household agreed for the examination, however on the best way to the hospital some 10 km away, she obtained a name and she or he mentioned she didn’t wish to proceed. Then, the automobile she was in was stopped by Congress chief (and former Amreli MLA) Paresh Dhanani who tried to instigate her and advised the police to take her house,” Amreli district police chief Kharat mentioned.
The girl, who belongs to the Patidar group, is the one one among the many 4 accused who was launched on bail after protests from throughout the group and the opposition AAP and Congress over her being allegedly “paraded” in public on December 29, throughout a reconstruction of the case. After her launch, the lady accused alleged in a video assertion that she was “thrashed” in police custody after which an SIT had been fashioned to analyze the identical.
In line with Kharat, the police took her house later Tuesday night and prompt the medical crew come to her house and do the examination within the presence of whoever she wished. “However she is now telling us ‘I don’t wish to do the examination now’. She is just not cooperating,” Kharat claimed.
In a while Tuesday, movies shared by the workplace of Dhanani confirmed him purportedly stopping the police convoy, asking the lady to step out of the police automobile and sit in his automobile. The previous Congress Legislature Get together chief is just not seen on digicam however a voice, purportedly his, is heard asking the lady law enforcement officials as to why that they had picked up the lady. The voice additionally asks them to drop her again house.
At this level, the lady police officer interjects, asking him his id. When Dhanani identifies himself, the lady officer says that that they had introduced her from her house and it was thus their accountability to drop her again house. Dhanani then allegedly accuses the officer of choosing the Patidar girl from her house to threaten and coerce her.
At this level, the lady officer turns to the Patidar girl and asks her if she had been threatened by them.
Additional within the video, the officer claims that no threats had been made and that the Patidar girl’s brother was together with her your complete time. The officer additionally says that she was being taken by the crew with the consent of her mother and father. Dhanani then asks the officer to drop the Patidar girl again house. When the officer asks the lady in query, she too says that she want to go house, at which level the officer agrees to take action.
The girl and three others — BJP Amreli taluka unit youth chief Manish Vaghasia, Jashwantgarh sarpanch Ashok Mangrolia and an affiliate Jitu Khatra — are accused of allegedly forging a letter levelling allegations of corruption on Vekariya within the identify of taluka panchayat chairman Kishore Kanpariya.
Following protests from Patidar leaders, together with these from influential Shree Khodaldham Belief, Amreli district police had filed an software earlier than native courtroom of the Judicial Justice of the Peace (First Class) looking for her discharge from the case. Nevertheless it was rejected. Aside from her, bail functions of different accused had been additionally rejected by courtroom. Kharat mentioned the accused then appealed within the district periods courtroom which granted her bail, however not the opposite three.
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