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Complaint filed against Fakirbhai's sons Thursday, September 20, 2001

TIMES NEWS NETWORK
AHMEDABAD/GANDHINAGAR: A resident of Borij village in Gandhinagar district, Ashok Keshavlal Sharma, has sent a request for security to the state government officials and the superintendent of police E Radhakrishna on the grounds that he and his family's life was under threat from the sons of state prohibition minister Fakirbhai Waghela.

In a three-page application describing the turn of events, Sharma said Waghela's sons, Jitubhai and Alpesh, had sent word through goons threatening to kill them on September 14.

Sharma tracks the vengeance back to a night-cricket match which he claimed was hosted by Waghela's sons in May this year. There occurred a scrap over someone wrongly parking his vehicle. Sharma apparently intervened to sort out the matter and was threatened by the minister's sons who flaunted their connections.

He alleged that "Waghela's sons and their goons tracked us down to our homes and began to make inquiries." Finally on Friday last week, when Sharma and his friends were at Rajshree cinema, some "20 persons came in a Maruti Zen and a Santro and took out hockey sticks from the boot of their cars and threatened to kill them," Sharma stated in the letter.

Sharma has sent copies of this letter to the Sector 21 police station, the home secretary, minister of state for home Haren Pandya, the director general of police and the Gandhinagar district collector.

When contacted, Radhakrishna denied having received any such application. The Sector 21 police inspector, one Mr Patel, told TNN: "If it is a cognisable offence, the complainant ought to have done the medical tests and proven thus. But he does not seem to have done any such thing. We receive several such applications daily."

Constables arrested for extortion: Two head constables and three constables were arrested on charges of extortion. In the first case, head constable Mukeshbhai Mavjibhai Makwana attached with the Karanj police station was caught after he tried to extort Rs 10,000 from a sex worker whose companion he had booked for "getting intimate in public."

He questioned them by posing himself as a sub-inspector from the crime branch. Police inspector K V Patel told TNN that the sex worker had come from Calcutta and was spotted by the constable sitting between two men on a scooter. Makwana stopped them and threatened to lodge a case unless she paid him the money. There was a representation before Additional Commissioner of Police (Sector I) Shivanand Jha and the head constable was arrested for extortion.

In another case, head constable Bhavubha Narsinh and constables Mukesh Mulshankar Joshi, Kalubhai Popatbhai Bharvad and Vijay Hiralal Sharma posted at the Satellite police station were arrested for accepting Rs 1.5 lakh from a hotelowner on Sarkhej-Gandhinagar road.

Rudrapal Singh Bhagwan Singh Khalsa, who owns Madhur Hotel, lodged a complaint before Jha stating that the cops fought with him and even damaged the window panes of his hotel. They then demanded Rs 2 lakh. Finally the four settled for Rs 1.5 lakh and were arrested for attempts to loot and extortion.

News Source : The Times of India [India's best Newspaper]

 

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