Rajasthan: Formal BJP MLA Gyan Dev Booked On Charges Of Spreading Communal Disharmony
Rajasthan BJP Formal MLA Gyan Dev Ahuja has been caught on camera urging a crowd to “kill anyone involved in cow slaughter”, saying, “We have so far killed five people, be it in Lalawandi or Behror,” in a direct reference to the lynching of Rakbar Khan and Pehlu Khan.
In 2017 and 2018 murders took place in Ramgarh, where the area was in the power of Gyan Ahuja when he was in the position of BJP MLA. Although, it wasn’t immediately clear which other three murders he was referring to.
In the video he clearly admits of permitted his workers to take deadly action, “I have given free hand to workers to kill. We will get them acquitted and secure bail,” he says in the video, apparently from earlier this week. All six accused in Pehlu Khan’s murder were acquitted in 2019 but an appeal by the state’s Congress government is now pending in the high court. In Rakbar Khan’s murder, the trial is still on in the local court.
The BJP leader Gyan Ahuja was booked on charges of spreading communal disharmony, under Section 153A of the Indian Penal Code on Saturday, after the video has gone viral.
