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More than a year and a half after allegations that a few fortune tellers damaged fruit trees, fixed crops and BR Ambedkar’s storehouse in an agricultural field near the Swaminarayan Temple in Sardhar village in Rajkot, a special court has ordered the police to book them. The court also asked the police to report her alleged cash transactions to the income tax authorities for an investigation.
The directives come more than a year after the complainant requested an FIR under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
Additional District Judge Vasantkumar Bhatt, the appointed judge of the Rajkot Atrocity Court, on Thursday ordered the police to register an FIR against Balmukund Swamy, Pattipavan Swamy, Nityaswarupdas and a crowd of about 150 people.
According to the appeal filed by Bipin Makwana, the complainant in the case, the three seers and others assaulted his land adjacent to the temple in the early hours of December 4, 2021, with soil bulldozers. The accused allegedly uprooted trees, crushed flowering plants, damaged standing crops, filled an open well and damaged images of B.R. Ambedkar and Gautam Buddha.
After the alleged destruction, Makwana, 33, a Dalit, filed a written complaint with the Aji Dam Police Station of the Rajkot City Police on December 5, requesting that the three fortune-tellers be booked under Classified Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities). Represent. But he said no flight information was recorded.
Subsequently, he filed a complaint with the then Rajkot Police Commissioner on December 12, 2021, but to no avail. Eventually, he approached the Special Atrocity Court in Rajkot on January 25, 2022, seeking directions for the police to book clairvoyants and others under the Scheduled Castes and Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act 1989. The court order indicated that the police investigation was launched after Makwana moved the court while Balmukund stated Swami and Patitpavan Swami that they paid Rs 95 lakh to Makwana and his family members to hand over the land and hand over possession of it to the Swaminarayan Temple.
The fortune-teller also gave a deed to this effect. However, the court noted that cash transactions of more than Rs 2 lakh have been prohibited since 2016 and in view of this, the present case appears at first glance to be illegal.
“We have cited the Supreme Court’s judgment in the case of Lalita Kumari v Government of Uttar Pradesh. We have also provided material harmful to faith to members of classified castes which constitutes an atrocity offence,” said GK Rathod, Makwana’s lawyer.
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