Gondal BJP MLA Geetaba Jadeja's son Ganesh Jadeja and others were booked in a case of attempt to murder in Junagadh Friday for allegedly kidnapping and assaulting a local NSUI leader. As complainant Sanjay Solanki, city unit chief of NSUI – a Congress-affiliated organisation – is a Dalit, the Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, too, was invoked. "No one has been arrested yet," said Inspector V J Savaj of Junagadh A Division police station. As per the FIR, Solanki asked Jadeja to drive carefully Thursday night when the latter's car passed too close to Solanki's two-wheeler in Kalva Chowk. Angered, Jadeja and his associates followed Solanki to his residence but left after Solanki's father, who knew Jadeja, intervened. When Solanki went out on his two-wheeler around 3 am, a car with Jadeja's men in it allegedly rammed it from behind. As Solanki fell to the ground, five men stepped out, allegedly beat him with sticks, and put him in the car. He was taken to Jadeja's residence where he was thrashed and asked to quit the NSUI, the complainant said. In the morning, the accused dropped Solanki at Bhesan crossroads, said the FIR.
