4000 PAAS supporters booked for rioting, 36 sent to jail, SPG warns Hardik

Ahmedabad

A day after the ‘dramatic’ detention and release of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) convener Hardik Patel and his aides in Surat city, another prominent outfit of Patel or Patidar community Sardar Patel Group (SPG) today warned him against trying to turn the pro- reservation agitation in to his ‘personal business’ even as police lodged rioting cases against 4000 of unidentified Hardik’s said supporters including 1000 woman in Ramol police station of Ahmedabad and 36 including 10 women were sent to jail in Mahesana for illegal road blockade.

In Visnagar and other areas of Mahesana district also rioting cases against hundreds of PAAS supporters have been lodged in various police stations for their violent protests tomorrow. In Surat city the Kapodara police has also filed two FIRs against PAAS supporters for trespassing in the local police station and damaging public property.

In a press conference in Ahmedabad today SPG leader Jigar Patel alleged that the PAAS leader was trying to mislead the Patel community on the reservation issue and he must not treat the pro-reservation agitation as his ‘personnel business’. He also said that the stubbornness of the PAAS leader and his ‘dominant’ attitude were detrimental to the agitation.

Earlier talking to media persons in Surat city Hardik one again alleged that the government was misusing its legal powers to suppress his agitation. He announced to keep his disputed Ekta yatra from Dandi postponed for now and organise a massive meeting in Surat in the coming days.

Meanwhile, Ramol police in Ahmedabad has filed rioting cases against 4000 people (alleged PAAS supporters) for violent demonstration and stone pelting in the locality yesterday to protest Hardik’s detention in Surat. The FIR mentioned that there were around 1000 woman in the mob.

A court in Mahesana district today sent 36 PAAS supporters to jail under judicial custody for their involvement in road blockade and violent demonstration yesterday. Ten of them were women. The police has produced them in the court which rejected their bail plea.

Hardik was nabbed by police near Mangadh chowk in Surat city yesterday when he was trying to start his disputed Ekta yatra despite not having official permission for it. He was later released on bail late last night.

10 people had died during the earlier state wide violence that erupted in the evening of August 25 after the first detention of Hardik in Ahmedabad.