Attack on BJP leaders in Vadodara: Eight more arrested

The arrests have been made on the basis of accused names in the FIR as well as circumstantial evidences.

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Police said they were trying to trace Ayare, who was named by the arrested accused Narayan Rajput alias Saddam as behind orchestrating the attack.

Even as the BJP councillor Rajesh Ayare remained untraceable in the case in which local residents in Gotri created ruckus and attacked Energy Minister Saurabh Patel and other BJP leaders during a ground-breaking ceremony, the Vadodara police on Saturday arrested eight more persons, taking the total number of arrests to 18.

Police said they were trying to trace Ayare, who was named by the arrested accused Narayan Rajput alias Saddam as behind orchestrating the attack.

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Ayare is the local corporator of the Gotri area where the ground-breaking ceremony for a Vadodara Municipal Corporation’s (VMC) low-income group (LIG) housing scheme was held on Monday under Mukhyamantri Gruh Awas Yojana, in which ruckus and stone-pelting by protesting locals injured Deputy Mayor Sunita Shukla.

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Patel was also present in the programme. The police arrested eight on the basis of their names in the FIR as well as circumstantial evidences, they said. The arrested were identified as Chandesh Thakkar, Jayendra Solanki, Tushar Panchal, Dharmesh Thakor, Manoj Valand, Mitesh Thakor, Mahesh Barot, and Suresh Parmar.

“We have arrested them based on their names in the FIR and circumstantial evidences. Ayare, who is also the local corporator, remains untraceable but we will track him down soon,” said ACP M B Joshi.

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