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An FIR has been registered on Saturday against an MLA of the ruling BJP in Gujarat for raping and criminally threatening a Dalit woman. The police has taken this action on the instructions of Gujarat High Court.
Praveen Sharma Gandhinagar. LanguageSun, 20 Oct 2024 05:03 AM share
An FIR has been registered on Saturday against an MLA of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in Gujarat for raping and criminally threatening a Dalit woman. The police has taken this action on the instructions of Gujarat High Court.
According to the FIR, the accused, former Gujarat minister and sitting BJP MLA Gajendra Singh Parmar, has also been booked under provisions of the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act as the victim is a Dalit. The alleged incident took place in July 2020.
The case has been registered under sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at Sector 21 police station in Gandhinagar.
A few days ago, the Gujarat High Court had questioned the Gujarat Police for not registering an FIR on the complaint of the victim woman against MLA Gajendra Singh Parmar. Parmar is a BJP MLA from Prantij assembly seat in Sabarkantha district.
According to the complainant woman, MLA Parmar had called her to the MLA’s residence on July 30, 2020 and had physical relations with her on the pretext of marriage.
According to the FIR, the victim told that the MLA later started ignoring her phone calls also. The victim alleged that once the MLA picked up her phone and made casteist remarks and threatened her that if she spoke to anyone in this regard, he would kidnap her and harass her.
After this, the woman approached the High Court in 2021 and requested to direct the police to register an FIR against the MLA.
