Locked doors greet cops who have been doing the rounds of V-C’s bungalow to arrest him
Parimal Trivedi is still missing and so is his family - this is what cops reported after their last attempt to arrest the vice-chancellor of Gujarat University before the time limit set by the Gujarat high court on Monday, went in vain. Police once again visited Trivedi's official residence, but there was no one to greet the cops.
According to the Assistant Commissioner of Police and incharge officer of SC/ST cell, KR Bhuva, Trivedi along with his family have disappeared after locking up their house.
"We went to his house near PRL, but we found that the house is locked since Sunday and no one is there to answer us," said Bhuva, who is given charge to probe the atrocity case filed against Trivedi by Pankaj Shrimali, a professor of GLS Arts College in 2008.
Earlier, unhappy with the police's inability to track down and arrest the V-C, complainant Shrimali is awaiting the next hearing for high court to give a stricter order. According to Shrimali, the delay in Trivedi's arrest might be a well organised game. "He might have been advised to hide till the next HC order comes after February 21, when the police will file an action taken report in the court," Shrimali alleged. He is now waiting for the court's stand against the officials who were supposed to take action before February 21.
According to sources close to the development, Trivedi, on his part too, has consulted some government lawyers of the session's court to find a solution to the matter. Since he cannot get an anticipatory bail in the matter, Trivedi must be arrested by police, which has, however, not yet happened.
Trivedi is facing investigation in a case in which he is accused of making abusive casteist remarks on Shrimali, allegedly in the presence of Pradeep Prajapati, former senate member of the varsity. A complaint was lodged with the Gujarat University police station on May 3, 2008 under the Prevention of Atrocities Act.
After no headway was made in the case, Shrimali moved the HC two months ago by filing a petition. The HC has ordered city police to conclude the probe and submit the report on February 21.
Discontented with the tardy pace of progress Shrimali issued a statutory notice to SK Saikia, commissioner of police on February 13.
According to Shrimali, the probe has been deliberately delayed, as the former in-charge ACP of SC-ST cell has gone on sudden medical leave from February 9, without handing over the probe to another officer. In his notice, Shrimali alleged negligence of duty on part of ACP, DD Chaudhari.
In his notice, Shrimali cited section 4 of Atrocity Act, under which it is stated that any officer found guilty of not doing a probe in a proper manner can be made a co-accused in the case for indirectly helping the main accused.
After the notice, commissioner Saikia appointed ACP KR Bhuva as the in-charge of SC/ST cell, who too has finally given up saying that he couldn't find Trivedi even after two days of search. Now, all eyes are on the high court and the stand it will take in this regard on Tuesday.
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