Gujarat: PAAS convenor Katheriya amongst 150 booked for ‘beating up BTP staff’

Convenor of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samithi (PAAS), Alpesh Katheriya, was once amongst 150 individuals booked for allegedly beating up Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) staff for taking a video out of doors a polling station in Surat on Sunday whilst elections to the Surat Municipal Company was once underway.

The PAAS contributors allegedly beat up six party staff of the Bharatiya Tribal Party (BTP) after certainly one of its contributors was once discovered taking a video of the PAAS staff out of doors a polling station in Velanja village, police stated.

A criticism was once filed through one of the vital sufferers, Jaykishan Vasava — an auto driving force, BTP member and a resident of Velanja village — at Kamrej police station on Sunday, following which an FIR was once registered towards PAAS Alpesh Katheirya and the opposite unidentified accused underneath IPC sections 143, 147, 148, 149, 323, 325, 395, 397, 504, 506 (2) and related sections of the Scheduled Castes and the Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.

Following the hot delimitation procedure, Velanja village in Kamrej taluka of Surat district was once integrated underneath the Surat Municipal Company (SMC) limits. The realm falls underneath Ward quantity 2 of the SMC, from the place BTP candidate Vijaybhai Vasava contested the company polls.

In keeping with police, Vasava’s supporters had been status out of doors Velanja village number one college and distributing slips to citizens when round 150 youths arrived on motorcycles and vehicles, donning yellow-coloured cranium caps bearing the inscription “Jay Sardar Jay Patidar”.

Vasava and 6 others had been within a automotive and a BTP member was once taking a video of the scene, Vasava mentioned in his criticism. In keeping with police, Katheirya was once intimated {that a} early life was once taking pictures a video of the PAAS staff, resulting in a heated trade between them.

PAAS staff then beat up Vasava and his supporters with wood sticks, pelted stones at them and later later fled the scene, Vasava stated in his criticism.

“We then knowledgeable police and went to Surat New Civil Health center for remedy with the assistance of some village youths,” he added. The opposite injured sufferers had been recognized as Ankit Gamit, Kiranbhai Gamit, Jenish Vasava, Jashprit Vasava and Sagar Rathod — all citizens of Velanja village.

Police Inspector MM Gilatar stated, “A quarrel ensued between the 2 teams, which later escalated to violence. We have now lodged a criticism and arrests shall be made quickly… The situation of the injured sufferers is solid. We’re accumulating pictures of the incident.”