Mahnisagar:

Gujarat Congress MLA Jignesh Mevani on Wednesday demanded the suspension of Mahisagar District Collector Neha Kumari, accusing her of constructing anti-Dalit feedback, a cost the bureaucrat rejected.

Mr Mevani’s demand comes every week after he sought related motion towards senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian for allegedly misbehaving with him and one among his celebration colleagues.

The MLA focused Kumari citing a purported video during which she was heard saying that 90 per cent of instances registered below the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, or the Atrocities Act, are used for blackmailing.

The IAS officer termed the lawmaker’s claims “baseless” and an unsuccessful try and get political mileage.

Mr Mevani visited Lunawada, the district headquarters, and demanded that an FIR be registered towards the collector below the Atrocities Act and that she was suspended over her “insensitive” remarks and “unparliamentary” phrases.

When one Vijay Parmar went to satisfy the collector together with his grievance on the SWAGAT programme on October 23, she used “unparliamentary” phrases towards him and in addition insulted the lawyer group by saying they need to be “slapped with slippers”, the Vadgam MLA advised reporters.

SWAGAT is an initiative of the Gujarat authorities for the redressal of individuals’s grievances.

In response to Mevani, the collector’s declare that 90 per cent of instances below the Atrocities Act are misused for blackmailing is an insult to the SC and ST communities and quantities to an offence below the Atrocities Act and Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS).

“We demand Kumari’s suspension and {that a} case be registered towards her,” he mentioned.

The district collector known as the MLA’s allegations a “political stunt”.

“The person whom the MLA known as poor, harmless younger good friend (Vijay Parmar) has a police case towards him, and his brother has multiple case of rape, kidnapping and assault towards him,” Kumari mentioned, including that they preserve visiting the collector’s workplace with grievances.

On the SWAGAT programme on October 23, he pressured the collector to file a case towards law enforcement officials. When the collector advised him that she didn’t have the ability to file a case and that he ought to method the superintendent of police (SP) or the courtroom, he continued to pester her over his challenge, she mentioned.

He even threatened the officers and advised the collector that she was a Brahmin and he would let her know what “part 4 of the Atrocities Act entailed”, she mentioned.

“You may perceive the course during which this MLA needs to take legislation and order by conserving an individual with a legal historical past together with him even when the state authorities is delicate about youngsters and ladies,” she mentioned.

The collector mentioned that the best way Vijay Parmar is “blackmailing” authorities staff within the title of the Atrocities Act is by no means proper. “The MLA’s assist to such folks makes it troublesome for the actual complainants and the actual victims to get justice,” she mentioned.

Final week, Congress leaders and Dalit group members gathered exterior the workplace of the Director Basic of Police within the state capital Gandhinagar demanding the suspension of senior IPS officer Rajkumar Pandian over his alleged misbehaviour with Mevani and his celebration colleague. 

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