COURTESY TOI JULY 13
DEFYING CURFEW
Minister’s son, two friends arrested
Offence Registered As Video Goes Viral
TIMES NEWS NETWORK
Surat:
Prakash Kanani, son of state’s junior health minister Kishore alias Kumar Kanani, was arrested for violation of orders issued under public notification following the controversy that was triggered by the audio and video of a woman lok rakshak police constable Sunita Yadav’s argument with them.
Kanani, 37 and his friends Dushyant Godhani, 41 and Sanjay Kakadiya, 42 were arrested in Varachha police station and released on bail later. They were booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code including 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), 270 (malignant act likely to spread infection of disease dangerous to life), 188 (disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) and 114 (abettor present when offence is committed). Police also booked them under the Epidemic Disease Act.
“The offence against the minister’s son and his two friends was registered based on the video that went viral,” said CK Patel, assistant commissioner of police, A-division.
In the incident, Kanani’s friends were stopped by Yadav near Mangadh cross road at around 10pm on July 8 when five persons were going in a car. Since there was curfew, Yadav questioned them and they informed that they were going to the hospital as their relative is a Covid-19 patient. Since Yadav refused to allow them to go, they called up Kanani and sought help.
When Kanani arrived, there was a verbal altercation between his friends and the cop, whose audio and video went viral.
Meanwhile, in the audio, the cop sounds enraged and starts abusing when someone said, ‘make you stand at the same place for 365 days’.
Earlier, minister Kanani alleged that the woman cop made only a portion of the entire recording viral. “She abused all those present several times. She should have taken legal actions but has no right to abuse people,” Kanani, told TOI. “Neither me nor my friend spoke a single word against her or cops, but due to unknown reasons she abused me,” Prakash claimed.