On his visit to a village near the Dharoi dam in the Sabarkantha district on March 8, Gujarat IAS officer Nitin Sangwan was allegedly taken captive and beaten by a gang of men involved in fishing, according to Gujarat police.
It is suspected that the incident was caused by the discovery of apparent irregularities in a fishing project. Sangwan, who serves as the Director of Fisheries, was accompanied by his subordinates during his visit to the hamlet on March 6; he was injured in the attack but is no longer in danger, according to Vishal Vaghela, the district superintendent of police (DSP) for Sabarkantha.
He reported that three individuals have been arrested for their claimed involvement in the attack on the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official. Nitin Sangwan, a Gujarat IAS officer, visited a village near the Dharoi dam in Sabarkantha district on March 8. According to authorities, he was allegedly taken prisoner and beaten by a gang of men engaged in fishing activity.
It is suspected that the incident was caused by the discovery of apparent irregularities in a fishing project.
Sangwan, who serves as the Director of Fisheries, was accompanied by his subordinates during his visit to the hamlet on March 6; he was injured in the attack but is no longer in danger, according to Vishal Vaghela, the district superintendent of police (DSP) for Sabarkantha.
He reported that three individuals have been arrested for their claimed involvement in the attack on the Indian Administrative Service (IAS) official. Vaghela stated that while three of the perpetrators had already been apprehended, investigations were underway to locate and apprehend the remaining suspects.
The bureaucrat and his colleagues traveled to Ambavada hamlet near the Dharoi dam constructed on the Sabarmati river in order to investigate a fisheries project in which the state government subsidizes local contractors to begin “cage culture fishing” in the dam water.
According to the FIR (first information report), the IAS officer from the class of 2016 was accompanied by D.N. Patel, a senior Fisheries Department employee from Palanpur, and several junior staff members during the visit. In his complaint to the Vadali police station, Patel stated that Babu Parmar, one of the fishing contractors and a crucial defendant in the case, began arguing with Sangwan when he learned the bureaucrat had discovered his wrongdoings and was considering legal action.
Parmar, a native of the village of Kanthapura in the Khedbrahma taluka, became enraged and bit Sangwan near the knees. According to the FIR, four additional individuals later arrived at the scene and assaulted the IAS officer. Parmar then summoned ten to twelve men armed with sticks, who came to the scene and kept Mr. Sangwan and his team hostage until they agreed to complete and sign a document promising not to make a police complaint against him after leaving the scene. The FIR also said that Parmar and others threatened to throw Sangwan and members of his crew into the dam.
On the basis of Patel’s complaint, the Vadali police filed a FIR against Parmar and his men under multiple IPC sections, including 386 (extortion by putting a person in fear of death), 147 (rioting), 189 (threat of injury to a public servant), 332 (causing injury to a public servant), 342 (wrongful confinement), and 353 (assaulting a public servant). Banaskantha district residents Dilip Parmar, Nilesh Gamar, and Vishnu Gamar were identified by the police as those arrested.
