By Online Desk
A caste Hindu businesswoman and his employees were booked in Gujarat’s Morbi town on Thursday for allegedly forcing a Dalit man, a former employee of her firm, to apologize with her footwear in his mouth for demanding his salary.
According to the FIR, the victim, Nilesh Dalsaniya, a 21-year-old Dalit man along with his brother and neighbour, went to the office of Raniba Industries Pvt Ltd (RIPL), a private firm led by businesswoman Vibhuti Patel on Thursday evening.
Nilesh demanded that Vibuthi pay his salary for the 16 days he had worked in the exports department of RIPL in October. However, one Om Patel, who identified himself as Vibuthi Patel’s brother, assaulted him. Vibuthi and her employees allegedly dragged him to the terrace of the commercial building and beat him up mercilessly.
“Vibhuti Patel forced me to take her chappal in my mouth and made me apologise… She warned me that I shall be killed if I ventured on Ravapar Road or if I dared to file a complaint,” the FIR quoted Nilesh as having stated in his complaint, reported Maktoob media.
The FIR invokes IPC Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506(2) (criminal intimidation), 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting) and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of the offence committed in prosecution of common object).The accused have also been booked under the SC/ST Act.
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A caste Hindu businesswoman and his employees were booked in Gujarat’s Morbi town on Thursday for allegedly forcing a Dalit man, a former employee of her firm, to apologize with her footwear in his mouth for demanding his salary.
According to the FIR, the victim, Nilesh Dalsaniya, a 21-year-old Dalit man along with his brother and neighbour, went to the office of Raniba Industries Pvt Ltd (RIPL), a private firm led by businesswoman Vibhuti Patel on Thursday evening.
Nilesh demanded that Vibuthi pay his salary for the 16 days he had worked in the exports department of RIPL in October. However, one Om Patel, who identified himself as Vibuthi Patel’s brother, assaulted him. Vibuthi and her employees allegedly dragged him to the terrace of the commercial building and beat him up mercilessly.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });
“Vibhuti Patel forced me to take her chappal in my mouth and made me apologise… She warned me that I shall be killed if I ventured on Ravapar Road or if I dared to file a complaint,” the FIR quoted Nilesh as having stated in his complaint, reported Maktoob media.
The FIR invokes IPC Sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult with intent to provoke breach of the peace), 506(2) (criminal intimidation), 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting) and 149 (every member of unlawful assembly guilty of the offence committed in prosecution of common object).The accused have also been booked under the SC/ST Act.
Efforts are on to arrest the accused. Follow channel on WhatsApp
