Rajkot: Rajkot city police have arrested a BJP youth wing cadre for allegedly firing at a shopkeeper over a dispute at a public toilet facility near Sorathiyawadi Circle. According to Police, Karan Sorathiya, 25, the secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha (BJYM) city unit, was drunk when the incident occurred at around 9 pm Wednesday. Sorathiya is son of former RMC councilors of BJP Kiran Sorathiya and late Raju Sorathiya. City BJP chief Mukesh Doshi has maintained that Sorathiya is no longer Secretary of BJYM. Doshi also added Sorathiya could have done firing in self-protection. Doshi also said that it was no an attack from one-side but scuffle between two.

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According to Police – Sorthiya started verbally abusing an in-charge after finding the Sulabh Shauchalay toilet locked. Vanraj Chavda(32), owner of a paan shop in the Sorathiyawadi Circle, also went to the toilet block to relieve himself and saw Sorathiya beating up the toilet in-charge. Chavda asked Sorathiya not to beat the man. This resulted into an argument between Chavda and Sorathiya, and further it became a brawl. Sorathiya took out his licensed revolver and fired one round in the air and at Chavda. Chavda felt a burning sensation on his back but was unhurt. Chavda’s uncle Devraj Chawda snatched the revolver from Sorathiya. The police detained five including Sorathiya and registered a complaint under IPC 304, 504 and prohibition act. A breath analyser test confirmed that Sorathiya was drunk.

Police has also filed a complaint given by Sorathiya against Vanraj Chavda, Devraj Chavda, Dhaval Ahir and four or five other unidentified men under IPC sections 143, 147, 323, 504, and 506(2). In his complaint, Sorathiya said that Vanraj picked up an argument with him when he was talking to the man in-charge of the toilet, and later on, the shopkeeper and others assaulted him. He also claimed in his complaint that he fired in the air in self-defence.