FIR in rape case against Prantij BJP MLA Parmar filed voluntarily, state government tells High Court

Justice Mehta past reserved the passing of the bid till October 22.

Notably, the FIR nether the charges of rape and transgression intimidation and sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act was registered connected Saturday.

The existent lawsuit is registered astatine Sector 21 constabulary presumption successful Gandhinagar nether Sections 376 (punishment for rape) and 506 (punishment for transgression intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.

While the FIR is listed arsenic ‘sensitive’, an authoritative from Sector-21 constabulary presumption of Gandhinagar confirmed the improvement to The Indian Express.

Even though the FIR whitethorn person been filed voluntarily by the Gujarat authorities done the Gandhinagar Police, the development, however, came lone aft the Gujarat High Court, successful 3 hearings successful October, urged the authorities to archetypal record an FIR and past analyse the matter.

According to the FIR, the complainant had alleged that Parmar, the incumbent MLA of Prantij, had called her to his MLA quarters successful Gandhinagar connected July 30, 2020, and established carnal relations with her connected the pretext of marrying her. She alleged successful the FIR that the MLA, subsequently, started ignoring her telephone calls.

Upon attending her telephone once, helium allegedly utilized casteist remarks and threatened to get the pistillate kidnapped and harassed if she talked astir their relationship, the FIR stated.

In 2021, the pistillate moved a peculiar transgression exertion successful the precocious court, requesting that the constabulary beryllium directed to registry an FIR.