KEYWORDS: FIR, Assault, Salary, Threat, Prosecution, IPC
An initial information report (FIR) has been filed in Morbi town against a businesswoman and her staff members for reportedly pressuring a Dalit man to apologize and hold her shoes in his mouth when he inquired about his unpaid salary. The accused businesswoman, Vibhuti Patel, also known as Raniba, owns a private company named Raniba Industries Private Limited. Nilesh Dalsaniya, the victim, spent sixteen days in October working for Patel’s company in the exports division.
Dalsaniya joined the company on October 2 and was offered a salary of Rs 12,000 per month. On October 18, however, he received word that his skills were no longer needed. Dalsaniya went to the Raniba Industries office on Ravapar Road on Wednesday evening (November 24) with his older brother Mehul and their neighbor Bhavesh Makwana to claim his salary for the days he had worked there.
Dalsaniya was attacked by Om Patel, a man claiming to be Vibhuti Patel’s brother when they arrived. Vibhuti Patel, Parixit Patel (a manager at Raniba Industries), and four others joined the attack. The FIR claims that after dragging Dalsaniya to an elevator and onto the commercial building’s terrace, the group assaulted him with a belt while also punching and kicking him. Dalsaniya complained, saying, “Vibhuti Patel made me take her chappal in my mouth and made me apologize.” “If I went to Ravapar Road or dared to file a complaint, she threatened to kill me.”
Dalsaniya was admitted to the government-run Gujarat Medical Education and Research Society Hospital in Morbi after the event. Sections 143 (unlawful assembly), 147 (rioting), 506(2) (criminal intimidation), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), and 149 (every member of an unlawful assembly guilty of the offense committed in prosecution of a common object) are among the sections of the Indian Penal Code under which Vibhuti Patel and her employees have been charged. They have also been targeted by the Scheduled Caste and Scheduled Tribe (Prevention of Atrocities) Act.
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NAME: HARMANNAT KOUR, COLLEGE: THE LAW SCHOOL, UNIVERSITY OF JAMMU, CLASS: 3RD SEMESTER INTERNING AT LEGAL VIDHIYA
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