The Jaipur police have registered a criminal case against Congress MLA from Jamwa Ramgarh, Gopal Meena, and five police officers on charges of harassment of a Dalit man. The complainant alleged that the legislator had assaulted him and forced him to lick his shoes, while an officer urinated on him.
The first information report (FIR) was registered on July 27 under various Sections of the Indian Penal Code and the Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (Prevention of Atrocities) Act on the direction of a Judicial Magistrate’s court. The 51-year-old Dalit man had approached the court after the police allegedly refused to register his complaint.
The incident is alleged to have occurred on June 30, when the complainant was allegedly picked up from his agricultural farm and taken to a place where Mr. Meena forced him to lick his shoes. After this, a Circle Officer allegedly urinated on him, according to the complaint.
