Dhanani among 40 Congress workers detained on way to protest police action against Amreli woman

The detained leaders then staged a dharna inside the police station till 5 pm after which they were released.

Addressing a press conference later, Dhanani said, “We are seeking justice for the woman and to ensure that such an incident won’t happen in the future. Our team had submitted an application to Varachha police for this event, but was rejected. We wanted to protest peacefully.”

He added that the accused woman’s fault was that she was employed at a “BJP leader’s office and acted on his direction to write a letter and later couriered it”.

“We just need to know why the woman, who was an employee, was made an accused,” he said, adding, “The state home minister (Harsh Sanghavi), who had come to Amreli to attend an event, had secretly told Amreli Superintendent of Police to take action in the case. Following this, the police caught the accused, including the Patidar woman”.