The Ahmedabad Metropolis Police arrested six males and positioned a juvenile in detention for allegedly finishing up a grievous assault on a 22-year-old man, following him to his residence, and surrounding it earlier than police arrived on the spot.
The incident came about within the Rakhial space on the intervening evening of Monday and Tuesday.
Within the FIR filed at Rakhiyal police station, complainant Salmankhan Kamilkhan Pathan mentioned that when he was coming back from a marriage reception, 4 males associated to at least one Azeem Taufiq Siddiqui adopted him. Certainly one of them, Afwan, allegedly attacked him with a knife as a result of which Pathan suffered accidents to each his arms and his again.
The complainant mentioned he then rushed to his residence however the attackers adopted him there as nicely.
Quickly, round 10-15 folks stood exterior Pathan’s home, acknowledged the FIR. A few of them have been waving swords, it added. The accused started hitting on the gates of his home with the swords and throwing stones at his residence, all of the whereas swearing obscenities at him and threatening to kill him, it added.
ACP RD Oza of ‘H’ division instructed The Indian Categorical, “Now we have arrested the six adults and detained the minor instantly after the incident.”
The accused embody Faheem Taufiq Siddiqui, Afwan Azeem Siddiqui, Kaleem Taufiq Siddiqui, Amir, Azeem Taufiq Siddiqui, and Javed Niyadkhan Pathan.
Inspector BG Chetariya of Rakhial police station mentioned, “A few 12 months in the past, in April 2024, the complainant had are available in battle with the household of the accused over building on their property. Cross FIRs had additionally been filed by each side.”
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All accused have been booked underneath Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) Sections 118(1) (grievous assault), 189(2) (illegal meeting), 189(4) (members of illegal meeting armed with lethal weapons), 191(1) (rioting), 191(2) (punishment for rioting), 191(3) (rioting whereas armed), 190 (illegal meeting in furtherance of frequent goal), 296(b) (obscene acts in public place), 324(4) (mischief), 351(3) (legal intimidation), and 125(b) (endangering life or private security of others). They have been additionally booked underneath part 135(1) of the Gujarat Police Act.
The incident got here a month after the violence in Vastral the place a gang of males allegedly attacked folks and destroyed property on the roads of town, resulting in a statewide crackdown on “anti-social components” throughout Gujarat.
One of many arrested accused, Kaleem, held a two-month-long anti-CAA protest within the Ajit Mill compound in December 2019. The Gujarat Police had booked him and issued an externment order, barring him from Ahmedabad, Mehsana, Kheda and Gandhinagar district in 2020. Whereas the externment order was quashed by the Gujarat HC in August 2021, a Metropolitan Court docket in Ahmedabad acquitted him within the protest case in August 2022.
