His arrest came after he alleged a racket around hiring dummy candidates for a fee to sit for recruitment and board exams
It’s a classic case of a whistleblower getting branded as a culprit and thrown behind bars. Yuvrajsinh Jadeja, 35, student activist-turned-politician, has been arrested by the Bhavnagar district police in Gujarat for extortion and criminal conspiracy.
His brother-in-law Shivbhadrasinh alias Shivubha Gohil, one of the accused in the 1-crore extortion racket case, in which Jadeja is being charged with, surrendered before the Neelam Baug police station in Bhavnagar on Tuesday (April 25). The district court has sent the duo to seven days in police custody.
This major twist in the ongoing recruitment exam scam case in Gujarat comes a week after Jadeja, an AAP youth wing leader in the state, unveiled an alleged racket involving the practice of providing dummy candidates for a fee to sit for government recruitment and board examinations in Bhavnagar.
AAP has criticised the move to arrest the whistleblower. Party leaders in Gujarat have accused the ruling BJP government of trying to silence Jadeja by arresting him.
FIR lodged
A Bhavnagar police official told The Federal, “Yuvrajsinh Jadeja was first detained late night on April 21 and after a long interrogation he was finally arrested. Yesterday, Bhavnagar police arrested Jadeja’s relative and a few others in the matter.” He added that an FIR has been lodged against all of them.
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