Barely four months after the Gujarat High Court granted interim bail to four accused in the first ever case registered under the Gujarat Freedom of Religion (Amendment) Act, one of the accused has been booked in another case pertaining to domestic violence and criminal intimidation.
On the other hand, the accused’s wife, has also filed a complaint her father for “deliberately trying to separate her from the husband.” The matter, goes back to a registered anti-conversion case. The new offence, registered at Gotri police station Wednesday, took place on January 21.
The FIR, lodged by the 53-year-old father of the woman, wife of the accused booked under the GFR 2021, charged the man with criminal intimidation and an abusive casteism stance, when he was questioned by the father over assaulting his daughter. The accused has been booked under various sections of the IPC: for voluntarily causing hurt/ domestic violence (323), intentionally insulting and provocation to break public peace (504), and criminal intimidation [506(2)] as well as relevant sections of the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, 1989.
Advocate Sajid Sheikh, counsel for the accused, said that the wife of the accused filed an application before the Vadodara Commissioner against her father, just before the FIR was lodged at Gotri police station.
