Bhavnagar: The Gujarat police have arrested Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Yuvrajsinh Jadeja in Bhavnagar metropolis of the state for allegedly extorting Rs 1 crore from two individuals, one of whom is accused of being the mastermind of the dummy candidates racket that was uncovered just lately, an official stated.
AAP’s youth wing leader Jadeja was arrested on Friday evening after a marathon questioning by the police that lasted for hours, he stated. Jadeja is credited for exposing the alleged dummy candidates racket earlier this month.
Inspector General of Police Bhavnagar vary Gautam Parmar stated Jadeja extorted Rs 45 lakh from Prakash Dave, the alleged mastermind of the case, and Rs 55 lakh from Pradeep Baraiya for not revealing their names in a press convention for his or her alleged involvement within the dummy candidates racket.
Following Jadeja’s arrest, the AAP in addition to the Congress slammed the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) for concentrating on him for exposing query paper leak and dummy candidate circumstances in recruitment for presidency jobs. The BJP authorities has been underneath assault over a number of circumstances of aggressive examination query paper leak, many of which had been uncovered by Jadeja.
Jadeja, who had held a press convention in state capital Gandhinagar on April 5 on the topic of dummy candidates racket, was issued summons underneath part 161 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) to him, asking him to look earlier than a particular investigation workforce for questioning within the case.
After his questioning by the police, an FIR was registered towards him and his aide on the metropolis’s Neelambaug police station underneath sections 386 (extortion by placing an individual in concern of loss of life or grievous damage), 388 (extortion by menace) and 120 (B) (felony conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), Parmar stated.
As per the small print of the case, on March 25, Jadeja’s aide had recorded a video of a dummy candidate. They confirmed the video to Prakash Dave and requested him to rearrange Rs 70 lakh if he didn’t need his identify to be revealed within the case.
The deal was finalised for Rs 45 lakh, he stated. Baraiya was additionally requested to pay Rs 60 lakh to keep away from being named by Jadeja within the press convention, police stated.
They finalised the deal for Rs 55 lakh, he stated, including that Jadeja collected the cash by means of his aide. Bhavnagar police have arrested 14 folks in a racket through which dummy candidates and aspirants bought jobs with out taking the aggressive and authorities exams for varied authorities posts. “In his press conference on April 5, Jadeja did not reveal their names,” Parmar stated.
AAP’s state president Isudan Gadhvi stated that the federal government has focused Jadeja even when the masterminds of the query paper leak and dummy candidate circumstances stay scot-free.
“It is Yuvrajsinh who has exposed several paper leak cases. So it is but natural that some very powerful people are angry at him,” Gadhvi stated in a video assertion final evening. “Paper leak and dummy candidates scams run into crores of rupees, and it is Yuvrajsinh who has exposed these cases. The manner in which he has been booked has upset the state’s youth and is an attempt to suppress their voice,” he stated.
State Congress president Amit Chavda stated that as an alternative of taking motion towards the perpetrators of query paper leak and dummy candidate rackets, the federal government has arrested a youth leader who was behind exposing the racket.
“I demand from the government that if there is nothing wrong with it, then why does it not call for questioning top BJP leaders who have been accused of being behind the dummy candidate racket? The chief minister should answer this,” Chavda stated in a video assertion.
