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Cross FIRs Follow Attack on CJP School Visit Delegation
A group from the Cockroach Janta Party went to inspect a government school near Jaipur.
The group said the school was operating in a buffalo shed.
A villager gave police a different account and accused the group of abusing and attacking villagers.
The CJP group said villagers stopped them and attacked them with sticks, bricks and stones.
Both sides filed police complaints against the other.
One complaint includes accusations under India’s law protecting Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
Later, police detained 11 people after a disturbance at a seminar addressed by Ashutosh Ranka in Jodhpur.
Police said they had not confirmed that the detained people belonged to ABVP or BJYM.
Cross FIRs were filed after a CJP delegation was allegedly attacked while visiting a Jaipur-area government school on August 21.
Villager Bhagwan Sahay Dhanka accused Ashutosh Ranka and 50-60 CJP workers of abuse, assault and casteist insults.
CJP worker Rekha Sharma alleged villagers attacked the delegation with bricks, sticks and stone-filled tubes, injuring several people.
The two FIRs include provisions of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita and the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes Act.
Jodhpur Police detained 11 people after an alleged disturbance at Ranka’s seminar, but said no formal ABVP or BJYM affiliation was established.
- Who
- Ashutosh Ranka, CJP workers and villagers are involved in the Jaipur dispute; 11 people were detained after the separate Jodhpur incident.
- What
- Cross FIRs were filed over an alleged assault involving a CJP school-inspection delegation, while police detained people after a disturbance at Ranka’s seminar.
- Where
- The first incident occurred near Rampura Kanwarpura village in Jaipur district and was reported at Shivdaspura police station; the second occurred at the Gandhi Shanti Pratishthan in Jodhpur.
- When
- The Jaipur incident occurred on August 21; the Jodhpur disturbance occurred on Sunday afternoon.
- Why
- The CJP said it was inspecting a government school under its “School Thik Karo” campaign; the villager’s complaint alleged that the delegation abused and assaulted villagers.
CJP’s account
Villagers’ account
Reason for the visit
CJP’s account
The CJP said it was inspecting a government school allegedly operating in a buffalo shed as part of its “School Thik Karo” campaign.
Villagers’ account
The villager’s complaint described the delegation’s visit as an inspection but alleged that the group began abusing him and other villagers.
How the confrontation began
CJP’s account
CJP worker Rekha Sharma alleged that the delegation was stopped near the village border and attacked from all directions with bricks, sticks and stone-filled tubes.
Villagers’ account
Bhagwan Sahay Dhanka alleged that Ranka and 50-60 CJP workers abused villagers and began beating them when villagers tried to reason with them.
Responsibility and legal action
CJP’s account
The CJP claimed that Lalchand Sharma orchestrated the attack and that Kamal Pradhan and Shankar Bagda were identified by villagers as having planned it.
Villagers’ account
Dhanka’s complaint led to an FIR accusing Ranka and CJP workers under BNS provisions and the SC/ST Act; the article does not report that these allegations have been proven.
Key facts
- Jaipur police station
- Both cross FIRs were lodged at Shivdaspura police station under Jaipur City (South).
- CJP complaint
- CJP worker Rekha Sharma alleged that the delegation was attacked with bricks, sticks and tubes filled with stones.
- Villager’s complaint
- Bhagwan Sahay Dhanka alleged that Ranka and 50-60 CJP workers abused and assaulted villagers, including with casteist language.
- Reported injuries
- CJP said volunteer Surendra alias Sanju Verma suffered a fractured hand, while Salman and Rekha Sharma also sustained serious injuries.
- Legal provisions
- The FIRs include allegations involving voluntarily causing hurt, wrongful restraint, unlawful assembly and intentional insult; one also invokes three sections of the SC/ST Act.
- Jodhpur detentions
- Jodhpur Police detained 11 people after an alleged attack outside Ranka’s seminar venue.
- Political affiliation
- Police said no formal association between the detained people and ABVP or BJYM had been established.
Quotes
Bhagwan Sahay Dhanka
Rampura Kanwarpura villager and complainant in the FIR against CJP workers
“The CJP team led by Ashutosh Ranka reached the village but our vehicles were stopped at the village border, away from the school, and we started going by foot. We saw that at some distance before the school, some anti-social elements were abusing… We repeatedly requested them to listen to us, that we have only come to inspect the school on the invitation of villagers themselves but our team was attacked from all directions with bricks, sticks, and tubes filled with stones.”
indianexpress.com
“At around 9am, Ashutosh Ranka of CJP came to our village with 50-60 people on the pretext of inspecting a school. They started abusing me and the villagers. They also used abusive language against the women of our village; when the villagers and I tried to reason with them, they started beating us.”
indianexpress.com
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