Hardik Patel's Intention Was to Wage War Against Gujarat Government, Says FIR

Ahmedabad: The 27-page First Information Report (FIR) filed by Ahmedabad crime branch against Hardik Patel and five others under serious charges of sedition says that the young quota leader had allegedly instigated his community to adopt violent means to "wage war" against Gujarat government.

The probe agency has put transcripts of various telephonic conversations and speeches of Patidar Anamat Andolan Samiti (PAAS) members and Hardik - where in they had allegedly instigated the agitators of their community to wage war against the state government.

The complaint against PAAS leaders is for inciting violence in the state on August 25-26 and even after that.

"The conversation made by some members of the core committee of PAAS and the agitators clearly shows that they had been instigating Patel community and asking them to attack and burn public property and also asking them to wage war to overthrow the duly elected Government of Gujarat," reads the FIR which was filed on Wednesday by ACP KN Patel of the city crime branch.

"The spate of violent acts that ensued in Ahmedabad city since August 25 clearly reveal a pattern and design getting its corroboration from the earlier speeches made by Hardik Patel and also from the transcripts of conversations of the other accused persons," it said.

The city crime branch had filed second case of sedition against Hardik and five others on Wednesday while charging them under IPC sections 121 (waging war against government), 124 (Sedition), 153-A (promoting enmity between different communities) and 153-B (Assertions prejudicial to national integrity).

Others who have been charged include Chirag Patel, Dinesh Patel, Ketan Patel, Amrish Patel and Alepsh Kathiria. Two of the PAAS members Dinesh and Chirag were arrested on Wednesday.

"Further acts of omission on the part of Hardik Patel and other accused persons belonging to PAAS prima facie establish that the entire agitation of seeking reservation for the Patidar community was never the intended purpose of PAAS," said the FIR.