MP: Computer Baba booked for manhandling panchayat personnel
A fresh case has been registered against self-styled godman Namdeo Das Tyagi, forallegedly manhandling a panchayat staffer before thedemolition of alleged illegal construction at his ashram nearhere, police said on Friday.
Tyagi (54), popularly known as Computer Baba, iscurrently in jail after he was arrested in preventive actionwhen the administration was removing encroachment fromgovernment land in Jamburdi Hapsi village near Indore onSunday.
The godman has been booked in a fresh case andformally rearrested in jail, following a complaint from thesecretary of a village panchayat under Gandhinagar policestation area, additional superintendent of police PrashantChoubey said.
The complaint stated that Tyagi and his associates hadallegedly abused, manhandled and ill-treated a panchayatstaffer, who had gone to free a government land from hispossession on Sunday, the official said.
The case was registered under relevant sections of theIndia Penal Code on Thursday, the ASP said.
The sub-divisional magistrates court had rejected thegodmans bail plea, following which an additional sessionsjudge also scrapped his review petition.
Tyagi enjoyed MoS status in the previous Congressgovernment in Madhya Pradesh, and was appointed as thechairman of a river conservation trust.
The authorities have claimed that they have freed40,000 sq ft of land worth Rs 13 crore from allegedencroachment by Tyagi.
The administration has freed 20,000 sq ft from Tyagisillegal possession in the premises of Shri Dakshin Kali PeethTrimahavidya temple in Ambikapuri extension, sub-divisionalmagistrate Rajesh Rathore had stated earlier.
Tyagi had allegedly illegally occupied the templepremises and constructed five rooms, it was stated.
Apart from this, illegal construction on 20,000 sq ftof land adjacent to a temple in the citys super corridor areahas been demolished.
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