Petition filed against MLA for scuffle with officers

UDAIPUR: The Kotwali police in Chittorgarh has filed a petition before a magistrate court against Mavli legislator Dharam Narayan Joshi and ex-MLA Suresh Dhakad for scuffling with the public servants on duty on April 6 when they had accompanied BJP’s sitting MP C P Joshi to file nomination for the Chittorgarh Lok Sabha seat.
The petition has been filed under Section 186 of the IPC related to causing voluntary obstruction to a public servant in the discharge of his public functions.The law provisions for punishment of three months imprisonment or penalty up to Rs 500 or both.
The police have submitted CCTV footages of the entire episode where the BJP leaders are seen misbehaving with Chittorgarh collector Shivangi Swarnakar when she objected to the number of persons beyond the permissible limit accompanying the BJP candidate while the nomination was being filed.
The police asked Zila Pramukh Leela Jat and legislator Arjunlal Jeengar to go out of the chamber but it irked Mavli MLA Joshi and former legislator Dhakad. They had a heated argument with the collector, who refused to take the nomination paper if more than five people, which is the permissible limit, remained in her chamber.
The BJP leaders allegedly passed rude comments and even said that if she behaved similarly with the Congress candidate, she would get a transfer order by evening. The leaders messed up with the police officers who asked the extra persons to leave the room. Collector Shivangi too registered her objections strongly over the incident and wrote a letter to the SP to take required action. At the behest of the SP, the Kotwali police have filed the court complaint.