Summary:
Rathod was granted a piece of land under Santhani scheme for Dalits in Gundasar village of Gondal taluka in Rajkot district. Sagathia has alleged the involvement of I-T officer Karsan Ajuria in the scam, and claimed that she had lodged a plaint against him with Gondal taluka police station. However, as no action was taken, she decided to take the extreme step,” said a Pradyuman Nagar police official. Rajkot: A Dalit woman and her son attempted self-immolation at Rajkot income tax (I-T) office, opposite Rajkot police commissionerate on Thursday morning.Police said Ganga Sagathia (60) and her son Suresh (35), both residents of Ambedkarnagar locality on 80 Feet Road in Rajkot, were protesting against the alleged naming of Sagathia’s 100-year-old mother Baya Rathod as accused in a land scam. The land is adjacent to a government plot which is used for cattle grazing.“Sagathia alleged that in order to usurp the gauchar land, some scamsters of her village had forged documents in which they had named Rathod as the owner..