Ahmedabad, 21 February 2012

Gujarat University Vice Chancellor Parimal Trivedi was arrested today in three-year old atrocity case, filed against him by Pankaj Shrimali, a professor of GLS Arts College. Trivedi would be presented to Ahmedabad Metro Court. Shri Trivedi was given conditional bail for Rs 25,000 bond. As per the other condition put by court, he will have to surrender his passport. Shri Trivedi has time and again said that the case against him filed is fake.

Trivedi’s counsel filed bail application on the ground that the complaint filed against the VC was not only false but it was with mala fide intent. To substantiate their claims, they furnished a letter written by complainant, a faculty from GLS Arts College Pankaj Shrimali, a month before the FIR was lodged in 2008. The letter was addressed to Trivedi threatening him that he could face charges of hurling casteist remarks in future. Shrimali had written that Trivedi should hold only himself responsible, if there was an atrocity case against him.

The lawyers also provided complaints made by the complainant before authorities before registering the FIR on May 3, 2008. They argues that nowhere in his communication made earlier, Shrimali had ever mentioned usage of a particular word by the VC. He disclosed it only in his police complaint.

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