AHMEDABAD: City police booked a resident of Bhat village in
Gandhinagar under Information and Technology (IT) Act for filming cops at Gaekwad Haveli police station when he came there to enquire about his car towed from Indira Bridge Circle.
According to the complaint filed by a traffic cop – Ramesh Pawar, the accused Jagdish Harichand Murjani had gone to the traffic police station at Gaekwad Haveli where three other cops were also present. As he reached the police station, he started asking why his car was towed from Indira Bridge.
Murjani told the cops at Gaekwad Haveli police station that he had enquired with the crane driver if it was proper to park his car at a certain place at Indira Bridge, and the crane-driver of traffic police had told him that his car would not be towed. After this Pawar asked him to come and meet the police inspector if he wanted to file a complaint. Pawar also told Murjani that the police inspector, who was not present at that time, spared only one hour twice in a day to hear grievances, said the FIR of the case.
When this was going on, a cop named Jigneshsingh Daywant spotted Murjani shooting the conversation on his cellphone. When the cops asked why he was shooting their conversation on cellphone, he was unable to give any proper reply after which his cellphone was seized and the cops found the entire conversation and video of the police station recorded on video.
Murjani was booked under sections 72 and 84 of the
IT act for breach of
confidentiality.
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