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A section tribunal successful Vadodara sentenced erstwhile BJP Deputy Mayor of Vadodara Municipal Corporation, Yogesh Patel (Mukti), to six months imprisonment successful transportation with a 2014 lawsuit of slapping the past Ward Officer during an anti-encroachment thrust successful city’s Karelibaug area.
Patel was accused of causing voluntary hurt, misbehaviour on with obstructing a ward serviceman from work during an anti-encroachment thrust successful the city’s Karelibaug area.
The tribunal of Chief Judicial Magistrate AS Shaikh examined 16 witnesses successful the lawsuit and besides considered 22 documentary and oral evidences during the proceedings. The tribunal besides slapped a good of Rs 1,000 connected Patel.
While the prosecution emphasised that Patel being an elected typical had a “responsibility of mounting a good example” and had “failed to bash so”, the defence argued that the complainant, Jagmal Nandaniya, was not contiguous astatine the spot erstwhile the incidental occurred. The FIR successful the case, lodged astatine Karelibaug constabulary station, by erstwhile Ward Officer Jagmal Nandaniya had stated that Patel had slapped him aft helium refused to springiness successful to Patel’s request of releasing the thoroughfare carts that had been removed arsenic portion of the drive.
While Patel was unavailable for comment, a BJP person said that the erstwhile Deputy Mayor was “preparing to entreaty against the order” of the little court.
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