Jaipur Municipal Corporation (Heritage) commissioner, Rajendra Singh Shekhawat, has requested permission to take legal action against Mayor Munesh Gurjar, her husband, and over ten councillors under the SC-ST Act. The request comes after additional commissioner Rajendra Verma urged Shekhawat to file a complaint regarding a recent incident in which the mayor and other councillors allegedly subjected him to insults, abuse, threats, and derogatory caste-based remarks.
According to Verma’s letter, which has been obtained by Times of India, the councillors and the mayor are accused of holding him hostage. Verma stated that on June 16, while performing his official duties at the JMC-H headquarters, he received a message at 3pm from the mayor’s office, demanding his presence in her chamber. He was given only ten minutes’ notice. After just five minutes, a group of councillors and individuals from outside barged into his room, shouting loudly and claiming that Verma had not signed a tender file. About 30 people then took him to the mayor’s chamber, where he was forcibly detained until 9pm, Verma alleged.
Verma clarified that he had informed the mayor ahead of time about his absence on May 30, when he was on leave, which prevented him from signing the proceedings on the file. He further explained that the file had already been submitted to the commissioner during the Upasana Samiti meeting on June 15, indicating that it was no longer under his jurisdiction.
Verma requested Shekhawat to file a complaint against several individuals, including mayor Munesh Gurjar, her husband Sushil Gurjar, deputy mayor Aslam Farooqui, councillors Umar Daraz, Neeraj Aggarwal, Shafi Qureshi, Sunita Mawar, Rabia Goodage, Anjali Brahmbhatt, Ayesha Siddiqui, Farid Qureshi, Mohammad Akhtar (husband of Ward 12 councillor), the son of the woman councillor from Ward 30, Phoolchand (an acquaintance of the councillor), and Basant Aswal (an acquaintance of the mayor).
The dispute appears to revolve around the BITS system of allocating sanitation staff to wards.
