5 individuals have been arrested and two FIRs lodged in Ahmedabad on Tuesday night time, hours after staff of the BJP and Congress hurled stones at one another outdoors the Opposition occasion’s state headquarters Rajiv Gandhi Bhavan throughout a protest towards alleged anti-Hindu remarks made by Rahul Gandhi within the Lok Sabha.
The 5 accused have been remanded to three-day police custody, mentioned Ahmedabad Metropolis Deputy Commissioner of Police (Zone 7) Shivam Verma on Wednesday.
Each the FIRs have been lodged at Ellisbridge police station in Ahmedabad on July 2.
One FIR was lodged based mostly on a criticism filed by constable Karmaraj Bhagvatsinh of Paldi police station — who had suffered accidents within the conflict — towards Congress leaders Shehzadkhan Pathan (chief of Opposition in Ahmedabad Municipal Company) and Pragatiben Nandaniya in addition to “round 200-250 Congress staff” and “a mob of 150-200 BJP individuals”.
The opposite FIR was lodged based mostly on the criticism filed by BJP’s Yuva Morcha wing chief in Ahmedabad metropolis, Vinay Desai, naming 26 Congress staff, together with Pathan.
These arrested – Harsh Ishwarbhai Parmar (23), Vimalbhai Pansara (50), Manish Thakor (47), Sanjay Barot (57) and Mukeshbhai Datania (68) – have been named as accused within the FIR lodged on the premise of Desai’s criticism.
The FIR lodged based mostly on Bhagvatsinh’s criticism booked the accused below sections 189 (2) (illegal meeting), 191 (2) (rioting), 191 (3) (rioting with lethal weapon), 190 (illegal meeting with widespread object), 125 (b) (grievous damage), 121 (2) (voluntarily inflicting grievous damage to discourage public servant from his responsibility) and 121 (1) (voluntarily inflicting damage to discourage public servant from his responsibility) of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).
The FIR lodged on the premise of Desai’s criticism additionally booked the accused for rioting and illegal meeting, however added fees below sections 115 (2) (voluntarily inflicting damage), 117 (2) (voluntarily inflicting grievous damage), 351 (3) (legal intimidation) and 324 [2] (mischief) of BNS as effectively.
In accordance with Bhagvatsinh’s criticism, the police had organized for bandobast “as BJP’s Ahmedabad metropolis Yuva Morcha deliberate to protest with out permission”. He alleged that whereas staff from each events have been sloganeering, “immediately, Congress staff and their leaders instigated the folks of BJP and began stone-pelting”, following which BJP staff too pelted stones in retaliation.
“5 police personnel, together with an ACP, have been injured in yesterday’s incident. We’ve got registered two FIRs… 5 individuals have been arrested. CCTV movies revealed that they have been concerned within the violence,” mentioned Verma.
On Monday night time, VHP and Bajrang Dal staff vandalised the Congress headquarter that was locked, and defaced Gandhi’s posters with black ink. Verma informed The Indian Express that whereas no FIR has been filed up to now into the incident, “the police are taking motion”.
In the meantime, hitting out at BJP, in a put up in Hindi on X, Gandhi mentioned, “The cowardly and violent assault on the Gujarat Congress workplace additional strengthens my level in regards to the BJP and the Sangh Parivar. The BJP individuals who unfold violence and hatred don’t perceive the fundamental ideas of Hinduism.”
“The folks of Gujarat can clearly see by their lies and can educate the BJP authorities a decisive lesson. I’m saying it once more — INDIA goes to win in Gujarat!” he added.