Rajkot: Congress cries foul as celebration employee booked beneath new anti-land grabbing legislation

A DAY after a neighborhood courtroom within the metropolis remanded Kanaksinh Jadeja, the husband for former Congress corporator Urvashiba Jadeja, and her relative Mahavirsinh Jadeja to six-day police remand after they had been arrested for allegedly grabbing 21 guntha land in Vavdi space of the town, Congress on Wednesday alleged that its employee had been framed in a ‘false’ case of land grabbing to tarnish picture of the celebration forward of the upcoming native physique elections.
Kanaksinh, his father Mahendrasinh and their relative Mahavirsinh Jadeja and 5 unidentified individuals had been booked by Rajkot Taluka police on Sunday for rioting, legal intimidation, mischief inflicting injury to the tune of Rs 50 in addition to beneath the Gujarat Land Grabbing (Prohibition) Act, 2020.
The police had booked the trio after Rajkot district collector issued an order for police motion following a grievance filed by one Renuben Mehta, a resident of Nana Mava Road within the metropolis, on December 23 final yr. Kanaksinh and Mahavirsinh had been detained Sunday evening and had been arrested formally after they examined detrimental for Covid-19 an infection. A neighborhood courtroom within the metropolis had despatched them to police remand for six days on Tuesday.
This was the primary case within the metropolis beneath the brand new anti-land grabbing act which had come into drive final month and is aimed toward stopping forcefully dispossessing somebody of her land.
In her grievance filed with Taluka police on January 3, Mehta said that her mom Meenakumari Parekh had bought 5,261 sq. metres of agricultural land bearing survey No.38/3 from Natubha Jadeja, adjoining the Gondal Highway within the income jurisdiction of Vavdi village in July 1970. Mehta said that an entry was made within the report of rights of this land as per order of deputy director (land data) of Rajkot in December 2017. However, the accused challenged this entry within the income courtroom.

After her mom died on June 16, 2019, Mehta utilized for mutation entry within the data of the land on August 5, 2020, however Kanaksinh and others challenged that entry additionally “and thus disputed the title of the land belonging to us”.
In her grievance, Mehta additional said, “On September 29, 2020, eight to 10 men trespassed into our land after breaking a section of compound wall and started digging holes to install a cabin of steel sheets but they ran away after police reached the spot after Prashantbhai Jain dialed 100 for help. On September 30, 2020, 10 men were standing near a cabin of steel-sheets on our land and when Lalit Parmar and Prashantbhai Jain went there and asked us to leave and threatened us.” She added Jain and Parmar had been member of her employees.
Mehta additional mentioned thus, Mahendrasinh, Kanaksinh, Mahavirsinh and 5 to 6 different unidentified individuals grabbed 2,125 sq. metres out of her 5,261 sq. metres land and tried to extort large sum of cash by threatening her.
However, at a press convention on Wednesday, Congress chief Indranil Rajyaguru claimed that Kanaksinh’s grandfather Natvarsinh had bought solely 31 guntha (101.18 sq. metres make one guntha) land to Parekh in 1970. He mentioned that in a while, a survey by the district inspector of land data (DILR) discovered the precise measurement of that plot of land was one acre and 12 guntha (40 gunthas make one acre).
“This KJP (kami-jasti patra, meaning addition or subtraction in a plot of land) was legal right of the Jadeja family by virtue of they being the original owner of the land not the Parekh family. The Jadeja family had filed a civil suit about this and it is pending. But now, the defendant in that suit has become complainant and the original complainant has been arrested by police. This is classic case of chor kotval ko dande (the thief punishes the guard),” mentioned Rajyaguru.
Ashok Dangar, the president of Rajkot metropolis unit of the Congress, alleged this was a ploy to defame the celebration forward of election to Rajkot Municipal Corporation. “Our worker is being framed by officers at the behest of the BJP to show the party in poor light ahead of the election. The case is politically motivated and we shall sit on dharna against this on Thursday,” Dangar mentioned.
Rajyaguru added Mahendrasih, son of the orginal proprietor Natwarsinh, had given a grievance to Rajkot metropolis police commissioner on September 30, 2020, alleging fraud within the mentioned land. “But police did not take any action,” Rajyaguru, a former Congress MLA from Rajkot (east), alleged.
Rajkot metropolis police commissioner Manoj Agarwal advised The Indian Express, “While I don’t remember the action taken in respect with that application, they should not have entered the land and threatened the owners. Rather than taking law in their hands, they should have taken the matter to court.”
Asked if the Jadeja household had proper to say the extra land after the KJP, Parimal Pandya, resident further collector of Rajkot, mentioned, “I can’t discuss technical points as the decision has been taken by the committee. Investigation is ongoing and the court will take a decision. One can’t comment when the matter is sub judice.”
A committee headed by the Rajkot district collector to eliminate purposes looking for registration of case beneath the Gujarat Land Grabbing (Prevention) Act, 2020, had granted Mehta’s plea for looking for police motion in her matter. Accordingly, the collector workplace had issued an order on January 1 directing legal proceedings within the matter.