The head constable attached to CID (Crime), who was arrested with an alleged bootlegger on Monday for allegedly trying to run over police officers who were chasing them, was carrying liquor from Rajasthan in the car, the police told a local court in Bhachau town of Kutch on Tuesday.
While the Kutch East police sought custody of the two accused — head constable Nita Chaudhary and Yuvrajsinh Jadeja — the court of Bhachau Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate D S Dabhi sent them to judicial custody.
In charge inspector of Bhachau police station, J M Jadeja, had on Monday produced Nita and Yuvrajsinh before the court.
Nita and Yuvrajsinh, a resident of Juni Moti Chirai village near Bhachau town, allegedly tried to run over six policemen while driving in a Thar car without registration plate on Sunday evening. The police had seized 16 bottles of liquor and two tins of beer from the car, which Yuvrajsin stopped only when Dineshkumar Zala, a sub-inspector of Bhachau police station, fired on it.
In his remand application, J M Jadeja stated that Nita had brought the liquor consignment from Abu Road town in Rajasthan’s Sirohi district, bordering Gujarat, and that Yuvrajsinh had joined her at a hotel in Samakhiari village on National Highway 41 in Kutch’s Bhachau taluka.
The court heard the remand application further on Tuesday. Opposing the application, Dilip Joshi, advocate of Nita and Yuvrajsinh, questioned the police version of the event. “I raised the question that if she was carrying liquor from Abu Road, how did she make it all the way to Kutch and was not caught anywhere in Banaskantha and Patan districts that she crossed? Why was she not stopped if she was driving the car with no vehicle registration plate,” Joshi told The Indian Express.
He added that he told the court that Nita was framed by Kutch East police. “She is part of a team of CID (Crime) conducting a confidential investigation in the area in a smuggling case registered in Mundra last year, in which two IPS officers, two inspectors and other officers are facing the heat. Therefore, the local police framed her.”
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