ATM security guard abused Waghodia BJP MLA on phone

Vadodara: The man who abused Waghodia BJP MLA Madhu Srivastava over phone last week turned out to be a security guard working at an ATM in Ahmedabad.
The detection of crime branch (DCB) arrested the man Raju Odedara and his aide Sagar Patel from Viramgam in Ahmedabad for hurting religious sentiments and issuing threats to kill the complainant in the case Vijay Yadav.
Odedara and Patel were booked by the crime branch on February 6 for threatening Yadav over phone. The police said that Odedara works as a security guard at an ATM in Ahmedabad.
Odedara had also called up Srivastava on February 5 and abused him during a heated exchange. “We had tracked him down from his phone number. Odedara had gone missing since last few days but we got his location on Wednesday and arrested him along with his friend Sagar Patel, who too had abused Yadav over phone,” said Jaydeepsinh Jadeja, DCP (crime).
While Odedara originally belongs to Porbandar, Patel is a resident of Ahmedabad. On February 5, Raju had called up Srivastava to discuss the latter’s work being ignored by the state government. The conversation soon turned ugly and both used expletives against each other. Both Srivastava and Odedara had claimed on the phone that they were drunk. Audio of the call went viral on social media the very next day.
On February 6, Yadav, a sympathiser of Srivastava, called Odedara but the accused again used abusive language against God and even threatened him. A complaint was filed by Yadav against Odedara following which he was booked under various sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC).
Crime branch sleuths said that Odedara had made similar phone calls to some other politicians and recorded the calls. “We will now investigate if Odedara has made such abusive calls to anyone else,” crime branch sleuths said. TOI had contacted Odedara and he admitted to have abused Srivastava. Odedara had said that Srivastava had abused him first so he lost his cool.