Indian Express: Ahmedabad: Friday,
February 17, 2017.
In what could
be a fresh trouble for BJP’s ex-MP from Junagadh Dinu Bogha Solanki, the
Gujarat High Court on Thursday handed over the investigation into the attack on
a Dalit RTI activist to the CID (Crime). The activist has accused Solanki of
plotting attack on him for exposing the illegal mining activities in the
region.
Solanki is
currently out on bail in the 2010 murder case of RTI activist Amit Jethwa. Last
week, the High Court had handed over to CID (Crime) another case involving Solanki,
wherein he is accused of leading a mob attack in Kodinar taluka of Gir-Somnath
district.
In the
present case, RTI activist Mahesh Makwana has alleged that he was attacked by a
group of people at the behest of Solanki for seeking information under the RTI
Act to reveal illegal mining in the region and also helping two persons who
were “victimised” by the former MP.
IPS
officer deposes in Amit Jethwa case
IPS officer
Himanshu Shukla, currently superintendent of police, Gujarat ATS, on Thursday
deposed before the special trial court in the Amit Jethwa murder c ase. Shukla
was the supervisory officer of the Ahmedabad Detection of Crime Branch (DCB)
which investigated the incident. The DCB had given a clean chit to Solanki
stating that there was not enough material against him. Following this,
Jethwa’s father had moved the High Court, challenging the clean chit. The HC
had ordered a CBI probe which filed a supplementary chargesheet against Solanki
and arrested him.