AHMEDABAD: A man has been arrested for making 42 threat calls to Jyotsna Yagnik, the former special trial judge for 2002 Naroda Patiya massacre case, over a span of 48 hours.
Accused Ramswaroop is the husband of Pravesh Vankar who worked as a nurse and domestic help in Yagnik’s house in Navrangpura, said police. Yagnik’s husband Kantilal Rathod, 69, filed a complaint on Thursday, accusing the caller of criminal intimidation and using abusive language.
“Since Yagnik was not keeping well, we employed Pravesh as nurse and domestic help on August 11. When she was working at home on Tuesday morning, she received a call from a person who told her to come to Sola police station to give a statement in connection with a police complaint against her. When she told Yagnik about it, the retired judge took the phone from her and asked the caller if Pravesh could come to the station after work,” the complaint stated.
The man on the phone allegedly told Yagnik that he was a cop. However, when she asked for his name and buckle number, he began abusing the former judge. Yagnik disconnected the phone but the man made 42 threatening calls to Yagnik from two different phone numbers on Tuesday and Wednesday.
Pravesh filed a complaint of domestic violence against Ramswaroop on Wednesday, following which Sola police nabbed him the next day. Ramswaroop’s custody was handed over to Navrangpura police who is investigating the threats made to the retired judge. Since he was drunk when he was caught, the accused was also booked for violating prohibition norms.
