Gujarat AAP MLA Chaitar Vasava has been arrested on attempt to murder charges after he allegedly attacked a taluka panchayat functionary at Dediapada in Narmada district, police said on Sunday. The attack was on Saturday when a meeting was organised at the prant office under the constituency of Vasava Dediapada. Vasava was arrested late on Saturday evening, the police said.
At the meeting, Vasava became angry after objecting to his nominee not being proposed for appointment as a member of 'Aapno Taluko Vibrant Taluko' (ATVT), a grassroots-level coordination committee, according to the FIR lodged at Dediapada police station. Vasava is accused of abusing a woman president of Sagbara taluka panchayat.
When Dediapda taluka panchayat president Sanjay Vasava, who was also present at the meeting, protested, the MLA allegedly assaulted him by throwing a mobile phone at his head, inflicting injuries, as per the complaint filed by Sanjay Vasava. The legislator also attempted to assault the complainant with a glass but was checked from doing so by the police officials present there, as per the FIR.
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But while breaking the glass, the MLA also grabbed the pieces of the glass and moved closer to Sanjay Vasava and threatened to kill him. The complainant managed to escape somehow, it added. The MLA also broke a chair which was being preserved in the office, the complaint said.
A FIR was then lodged at Dediapada police station under sections 109 (attempt to kill), 79 (insulting the modesty of a woman by words, gestures), 115 (2) (voluntarily causing hurt), 351 (3) (criminal intimidation), 352 (intentional insult) and 324 (3) (damage to property) of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
While, meanwhile, tensions ran high in Dediapada after MLA Chaitar Vasava's arrest, the local administration put a restriction on the congregation of over four individuals in a single location in the town, in order to ensure law and order.
Aam Aadmi Party's national convener Arvind Kejriwal alleged that the MLA was arrested because the BJP was "enraged" after AAP's victory in Visavadar, with reference to the recent by-election, where his party candidate Gopal Italia had emerged victorious.
"AAP MLA @Chaitar_Vasava has been arrested by BJP in Gujarat. BJP is angry after defeat in the Visavadar by-election against AAP. If they believe AAP will be intimidated by such arrests, then this is their biggest blunder. People of Gujarat are now tired of BJP's misrule, BJP's goondaism and dictatorship, now the people of Gujarat will reply to BJP," Kejriwal accused in an X post.
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