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Gujarat Global News Network, Ahmedabad
A retired Deputy Mamlatdar Natubhai K Acharya
who had filed complaint against Babu Bajrangi
has been reported missing under mysterious circumstances.
Acharya’s family saw him
last on March 17. He had filed a criminal complaint
against Bajrang Dal leader Babu Bajrangi for
not allowing the release of Pa! rzania in Gujarat.
Acharya (53), who is also a social worker,
had on February 6 this year filed a criminal
complaint against Bajrangi in a Mehsana court.
He had alleged that “Bajrangi
was running a parallel government in the state
and threatening theatre owners not to show the
film.A day after this, judicial magistrate G
M Damodra ordered the town’s
police to conduct a detailed inquiry into the
matter and submit a report within 15 days.
In the meantime, Acharya went missing from
his Parshvnath Society residence under mysterious
circumstances on March 17. Acharya left his
home around 9 am that day saying that he had
some work in the collectorate. His family never
saw him after this, according to Mehsana town
p! olice inspector, R R Pathak.
His wife Rita, called up all their relatives
and searched for him at Kedarnath, Ambaji, Himmatnagar
and Mehsana, and all other likely places where
he could have gone. But there is no trace of
him. He has two daughters and a son.
His son Yovan Acharya, a businessman, finally
lodged a complaint with Mehsana Town Police.
However, instead of registering it as a complaint,
police has only made note of it as a missing
entry. Nathubhai Acharya’s
brother Mukundbhai who works at the district
collector’s office in Patan,
say that they did not suspect Bajrangi’s
hand in this yet. There could be some other
reasons.
In his complaint, Acharya had all! eged that
State Government was not taking any steps for
the release of `Parzania’
in cinemas and multiplexes in the state. The
atmosphere of peace and harmony prevails in
the state and the film which is based on a Parsi
boy missing since the 2002 riots, will not disturb
peace in the state. The boy’s
family also wanted to see the film, Acharya
had said in his complaint.
Babu Bajrangi is an accused in the Naroda Patia
case and is involved in number of cases in which
minority community has alleged that he is harassing
them. For news in Hindi see our Hindi daily
Chaupal Chronicle
