Madhya Pradesh – SDM-CSP removed after requesting to end protest by kneeling in front of former congress minister
Indore. The plea of three Congress MLAs, including former Madhya Pradesh minister Jeetu Patwari, to kneel on the ground and finish the sit-in with them, has cost the Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) and the City Superintendent of Police (CSP) dearly and has been transferred.
This picket was being done against the policies of the BJP government of the state to deal with the outbreak of Kovid-19. Officials said on Sunday that SDM Rakesh Sharma and CSP DK Tiwari were removed from field posting and transferred to Bhopal with immediate effect in orders issued by different departments of the state government late on Saturday.
He said that Sharma has been posted as Deputy Collector in General Administration Department, while Tiwari has been posted as Deputy Superintendent (DSP) at Police Headquarters. According to eyewitnesses, SDM and CSP reached the dharna at Rajbada yesterday. There, he kneeled down and talked to Patwari and two other Congress MLAs.
Both the officials had requested the three MLAs in this posture to end the picket. After the video of the incident went viral on social media, several BJP leaders objected to the conduct of the two officials. During the dharna, the Congress leaders alleged that the state government has failed to deal with the outbreak of Kovid-19 and the public has been left on its condition.
Three Congress leaders reached the police station and arrested
In protest against the policies of the BJP government of Madhya Pradesh on the outbreak of Kovid-19, the politics started on Saturday by the Congress’s dharna here on Sunday. Two Congress MLAs and the city Congress president, who were among the four who staged the strike, rushed to the police station and arrested themselves, alleging that the police-administration chief was siding with the opposition party.
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Additional Superintendent of Police (ASP) Rajesh Vyas said that no permission was taken from the administration for Saturday’s dharna of a total of four Congress leaders in Rajbada region. Due to this, an FIR has been lodged against former Minister of State Jitu Patwari and two other MLAs sitting on dharna-Vishal Patel and Sanjay Shukla and City Congress President Vinay Bakaliwal under Section 188 of the Indian Penal Code (No order of any government official) done.
Vyas said that in this case, along with Patel and Shukla, the city Congress president reached the Sarafha police station on Sunday and gave arrest. The ASP said that after formal arrest, the police served notices to the three leaders and asked them to appear before a local court on June 29 as part of further legal process.
