The Ahmedabad Police on Friday filed a closure report in a Metropolitan Court and gave a clean chit to Prime Minister Narendra Modi in a case of alleged violation of Model Code of Conduct(MCC) after he came to cast his vote during the lok Sabha election.
Confirming the development senior officials in Gujarat Police said that a closure report was submitted before the Metropolitan Court.The closure summary maintaining that no case was made out against Modi was filed in the court of Metropolitan Magistrate MH Patel. On April 30 an FIR was registered against Modi after a controversy created over his Press conference outside the poll booth in which he displayed BJP’s symbol lotus in front of TV cameras. The Congress party had filed a complaint against the former Gujarat Chief Minister and under the provision of Sections 126 (1)(a) and 126 (l)(b) of Representation of People Act, 1951 FIR was lodged against him.
Modi is also facing a separate case in connection with the incident wherein an Aam Aadmi Party worker has said that the police had filed an incomplete FIR in the case.Nishant Verma, in his complaint to the Ahmedabad (rural) court, has demanded that Modi be additionally charged under Section 130 of RPA and IPC Sections 114, 171 (c) and (f).
At the last hearing in the case on August 5, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate (ACJM) MM Sheikh of Ahmedabad rural court had given the Crime Branch three weeks to file an action taken report.