Days after Congress Rajya Sabha MP and former Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Digvijaya Singh staged an overnight sit-in outside Khajuraho Police Station in Chhatarpur district, an FIR has been filed against him along with more than 50 Congress workers for allegedly violating the Model Code of Conduct .
According to the police, the FIR has been filed under the Indian Penal Code (IPC) Section 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant) for holding the protest without a valid permission from the authorities while the Model Code of Conduct is in force in the State. Congress MLA and candidate from Chhatarpur’s Rajnagar seat Vikram Singh Nati Raja has also been named in the FIR, the police said.
On November 18, Mr. Singh had staged a sit-in and spent the night in a tent outside the police station to demand action against BJP candidate from Rajnagar, Arvind Pateriya, who along with his supporters is an accused of mowing over a local Congress worker to death in the morning of November 17, when the voting for the Assembly elections took place.
