Udaipur: Delvada police in Rajastahn has filed case against Congress leader Pushkarlal Dangi, quota agitation leader Hardik Patel and 8 others for threatening toll tax booth employees and escape the toll booth without paying toll tax. According to police, Hardik Patel, Dangi and others didn’t pay toll tax while moving between Udaipur and Shrinathji at Udaipur-Gomti four lane based Negadia toll booth and threatened the toll booth employees.

Toll booth employee Kapil Dev reported that four cars came to toll booth in the afternoon. Former Congress MLA Dangi in whose bungalow Hardik Patel is staying showed pass and got away without paying toll. When toll booth employees stopped 3 other cars, Hardik Patel, Pushkar Dangi and 10-12 persons stepped out of their cars and started issuing threats to toll booth employees. They got away with their cars without paying toll tax.

Police has booked Hardik Patel and others under section 143 and 384.

It should be noted here that Hardik Patel and his supporters had not paid toll tax at three toll booths between Rajkot and Upleta in Gujarat too earlier.

Hardik Patel is out of jail on bail. He has been asked by Gujarat High Court to stay outside Gujarat for six months. Meanwhile Udaipur IG and SP called Hardik and asked him to not move outside the residence where he is staying in Udaipur. Inspector General Anand Shrivastav told Hardik that he has to appear at local police station once every week. He can’t change place of stay he has conveyed to High Court. He will have to take permission of Gujarat High Court to change his location.

Shrivastava said, it was mistake on Hardik’s part that he went to Nathdwara. If he wants to go somewhere or change his location, he has to file plea in the High Court first. He can’t move outside his residence without permission of court. Meanwhile Hardik said he would consult his lawyer in this issue. He said he understands he has been asked to stay out of Gujarat for six months, but during these six months he can move anywhere outside the limit of Gujarat. DeshGujarat

Agency report:
Udaipur:An FIR was today registered against Patidar reservation agitation spearhead Hardik Patel for allegedly threatening a toll booth staff in Rajasthan’s Rajsamand even as police restricted his movement outside his temporary residence here.

IG Anand Srivastava said this, however, was not a house arrest as one of the conditions of the Gujarat High Court while granting him bail was that he has to stay at a temporary address outside Gujarat for the next six months.

“When he has to stay at the temporary address, he is not supposed to move out and he has been asked to stay at the place only in compliance with the court order,” he said.

“He was granted conditional bail and this is not a house arrest. This arrangement is in compliance with the court order,” he said.

Meanwhile, the case was registered against Patel, former Congress MLA Pushkar Dangi and eight others for threatening the toll booth staff from where they passed without paying the toll tax yesterday, Rajsamand SP Vishnu Kant said.

“The accused were in four cars and were returning from Nathdwara temple in Rajsamand to Udaipur. As per the complaint of the toll booth staff, they did not pay the tax and threatened the staff following which the FIR was lodged with Delwara police station,” he said.

The case was registered under sections 384 (punishment for extortion) and 143 (unlawful assembly) of IPC, he added.

Hardik is at present staying at the residence of former Congress MLA Pushkar Dangi in Srinath colony.

He was summoned by police yesterday after he visited Srinath temple and was reminded of the condition that he does not leave his residence.

“If he has to move from that address, he has to seek prior permission from the court. In case of a violation, the court will be informed,” Srivastava said.

He added that the house where Patel is staying is being monitored by police.

Patel was recently released from jail in Gujarat after nine months in confinement. PTI