Jayesh Panchal had pelted stones at cops during a funeral procession.
An NRI, who faces charges of pelting stones at the police during the 1992 riots in the city, has requested the metropolitan court to speed up the trial in the case. Jayesh Dasrath Panchal, who has got an Australian citizenship, made the request after he was arrested recently for not attending the court proceedings regularly.
According case details, Panchal, a resident of Dariyapur in Ahmedabad, had gone to participate in a funeral procession of one Ashwin Patel at Vadigam in Dariyapur on December 21, 1992. This was when riots had broken out at many places across the country, including Ahmedabad, in the aftermath of the Babri masjid demolition on December 6, 1992.
As the situation was tense, policemen had been deployed as a preventive measure at the spot where the funeral procession was supposed to take place. But Panchal and others reportedly pelted stones at the police during the procession.
Police arrested Panchal and others for violation of police commissioner's notification. They were booked under various sections of Indian Penal Code (IPC), including rioting, damage to police property and unlawful assembly. Later, Panchal was released on bail on the condition that he would attend the court proceedings regularly. In the meantime, Panchal, an engineer, visited Sydney and also managed to get the citizenship of Australia.
According to sources, Panchal and his family visited Ahmedabad this year for seeing Rath Yatra. When he was returning to Australia on July 5, 2009, Panchal was arrested at Mumbai airport on the basis of specific information.
The Ahmedabad police brought Panchal from Mumbai and lodged another case against him for not attending court hearings regularly.
A separate charge-sheet was filed against Panchal in this connection. Panchal has now pleaded before the metropolitan court magistrate, AB Bhujak, that the two charge-sheets be clubbed and a speedy trial in the case be done as he is he is planning to visit Australia.
The court reserved its order after hearing the arguments from both sides.
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