The 27-page FIR filed by Ahmedabad crime branch against Hardik Patel and five others under serious charges of sedition says that he had allegedly instigated his community to adopt violent means to “wage war” against the Gujarat government.
The probe agency has put transcripts of various telephonic conversations and speeches of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) members and its convener Hardik Patel, in which they had allegedly instigated the agitators of their community to wage war against the state government.
The complaint against PAAS leaders is that they had incited violence in the state on August 25-26 and even after that.
The conversations of some members of the core committee of PAAS and the agitators clearly show that they had been instigating the Patel community and asking them to attack and burn public property and wage war to overthrow the duly elected Government of Gujarat.
The spate of violent acts that ensued in Ahmedabad since August 25 clearly reveal a pattern and design, getting its corroboration from the earlier speeches made by Hardik Patel and also from the transcripts of conversations of the other accused persons.
FIR filed by ACP KN Patel, Crime Branch, Ahmedabad
The city crime branch had on Wednesday filed second case of sedition against Hardik and five others while charging them under IPC sections 121 (waging war against government), 124 (Sedition), 153-A (promoting enmity between different communities) and 153-B (Assertions prejudicial to national integrity).
Others who have been charged include Chirag Patel, Dinesh Patel, Ketan Patel, Amrish Patel and Alepsh Kathiria.
Two of the PAAS members Dinesh and Chirag were arrested on Wednesday.
Further acts of omission on the part of Hardik Patel and other accused persons belonging to PAAS prima facie establish that the entire agitation of seeking reservation for the Patidar community was never the intended purpose of PAAS.
FIR filed by ACP KN Patel, Crime Branch, Ahmedabad
(With inputs from PTI)
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