1996 dhoti-pulling case against one of BJP’s 1st 2 LS MPs dropped | India News

AHMEDABAD: Twenty-nine years after then Gujarat minister Atmaram Patel’s dhoti was pulled throughout a BJP operate at Sardar Patel Stadium, a metropolis periods court docket on Thursday dropped the legal case against former Union minister A Okay Patel, one of the 2 first BJP Lok Sabha members.Another BJP politician, Mangaldas Patel, was additionally an accused within the case, registered at Naranpura police station beneath IPC Section 307 (try and homicide) for allegedly assaulting and pulling off the minister’s dhoti in 1996.The accused had backed Shankersinh Vaghela on the time of his rift with then chief minister Keshubhai Patel. The incident occurred instantly after BJP’s Atal Bihari Vajpayee had completed addressing the get together gathering.Public prosecutor Sudhir Brahmbhatt filed an software beneath CrPC Section 321 looking for withdrawal of the case against the 95-year-old former MP. The co-accused within the case, Mangaldas Patel, and witness (sufferer) Atmaram Patel, had handed away in the course of the pendency of the trial.After listening to the submissions, extra periods choose H G Pandya noticed: (*2*)Earlier, on Jan 30, 2018, a metropolitan court docket had dropped a associated legal case against 41 BJP staff and politicians, together with VHP chief Pravin Togadia and BJP MLA from Daskroi Babu Jamna Patel.