Vadodara: A day after former MP Satyajit Gaekwad accused a police sub-inspector of assaulting him, city police commissioner R B Brahmbhatt on Thursday ordered an inquiry into the incident. ACP (D division), A V Rajgor has been asked to conduct an inquiry and submit a report.
“I will conduct a detailed inquiry and record statements of Gaekwad as well as the PSI. The focus will be on finding who was at fault and whether the allegations levelled by Gaekwad are true,” Rajgor told TOI and added that he will submit the report within three days.
Gaekwad had on Wednesday accused PSI D S Patel of assaulting him near Polo Ground. He said that his sister was intercepted by the cops as she wasn’t wearing a face mask while travelling in her car and called up her brother as she didn’t have money for the fine.
However, Gaekwad who was ready to pay the fine claims the cops didn’t have a challan book and when he questioned them about it, the PSI got angry and slapped him, he alleged. The police officials, however, claimed that Gaekwad had misbehaved with the cops and got into a scuffle with them.
City Congress leaders too met senior police officials on Thursday and demanded action against the PSI for allegedly assaulting a former MP.