Jamnagar: FIR against IT officials for beating up trader

Jamnagar

Local police today registered an FIR against two assistant commissioners of Income Tax and nine subordinate officers for allegedly beating up a trader at Dared GIDC area here.

“An FIR was lodged against assistant income tax commissioners Dharmendra Punia and Chaher J for trespassing into Sanjay Katariya’s firm Bhavin Impex at GIDC phase-2 and beating him up,” Circle Police Inspector K G Jhala said.

According to the complainant, the officials abused him before assaulting him on December 19 last year.

They also allegedly confined him from December 19 to 21.

Inspector Jhala said the police filed the FIR today after the Gujarat High Court directed them to initiate legal action against the IT officials.

The FIR was registered under Indian Penal Code sections 323 (causing hurt), 342 (wrongful confinement), 443 (trespass) and 503 (criminal intimidation).

The accused were on the run and police were trying to nab them, he said.

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