Rajasthan: NGO chief arrested for ‘threatening’ government employees, family framed

Police in Rajasthan’s Bharatpur district arrested a 62-year-old man, the state president of an NGO ‘Public Against Corruption Society Rajasthan’, for allegedly threatening public servants, misbehaving with women health workers and disobeying a public servant’s order. arrested on the charges. . The family members of 62-year-old Devendra Singh Faujdar allege that he has been “implicated” in a false case for raising issues of public interest and highlighting the shortcomings of the public health system in Bharatpur. “My father has been falsely implicated as he has been continuously raising issues of public interest and exposing the shortcomings of the local health system. Faujdar’s daughter Vaishnavi said, this is a wrong and prejudicial attempt to imprison and intimidate a person to demand basic human rights in times of medical need on the part of those who, who does not have the voice to do so. According to the police, Faujdar was arrested on Thursday, while an FIR was registered against him on June 3 at Lakhanpur police station under sections related to outraging the modesty of women. Faujdar, who was outspoken on Facebook and regularly conducts FB Live sessions, had last month streamed a video outside the primary health center in Bharatpur’s Hantra, where he was seen lying empty liquor bottles outside the facility. Following the video, the Chief Medical and Health Officer (CMHO) Bharatpur issued a show cause notice to the in-charge of the PHC. The State President of Public Against Corruption Society Rajasthan India (SIC) has released a video on Facebook media and informed that PHC Hantra has become a den of alcoholics, the employee is an alcoholic and he has also shown empty liquor bottles in the video. . The show-cause notice issued by Bharatpur CMHO Kaptan Singh said that he has asked the state government to immediately suspend such employees and depute others. Documents show that in other cases as well, the CMHO had issued show cause notices to health department officials on the basis of other videos shot by Faujdar. In a letter to the Bharatpur district collector on June 1, Faujdar had accused CMHO Singh of threatening on WhatsApp that he would be implicated in false cases and booked by women health workers. Two days later, the police registered an FIR based on Singh’s complaint. The FIR states that three women health workers, including the ANM, had submitted an application saying that Faujdar misbehaved with them and misbehaved with them. It also said that the inhuman and derogatory remarks made by the Faujdar have demoralized the employees of the Health Department. The FIR states that Faujdar has distorted facts and presented them in his Facebook Live sessions, made videos of women health workers and their allegations of poor health services were denied by local public representatives. is. “After recording the statements of the women, Prima facie the allegations were found to be true and Faujdar was arrested on Thursday and sent to judicial custody by the court. Preliminary investigation reveals that he misbehaved with the women and confronted them by saying why they went home and would not stay in the health center 24 hours a day. The son of one of the women had also made a video of the incident suggesting that he behaved inappropriately and threatened them,” said Punjab Singh, SHO, Lakhanpur police station and the investigating officer in the case. Police said that Faujdar has been arrested under various sections of the IPC. Bharatpur SP Devendra Kumar Bishnoi said that the allegations of implicating Faujdar are wrong. Bishnoi said, “After due investigation the accused was arrested and the allegations were found to be true.” Repeated attempts to reach out to the CMHO through calls and text messages remained unanswered. Faujdar’s family members said that they were being harassed because of the video. Vaishnavi said, “I am shocked by the fraudulent nature of the arrest as he was lured into the police station on the pretext of taking notice.” .