According to the charge sheet filed by police in the case, the accused Sakariya Rajeshbhai Khimji (41) has also admitted to his mistake and sought pardon for his act.
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The man arrested for attacking Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta has confessed that he wanted to eliminate the senior BJP leader in order to become rich and famous.
According to the charge sheet filed by police in the case, the accused Sakariya Rajeshbhai Khimji (41) has also admitted to his mistake and sought pardon for his act.
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“I wanted to be famous and rich by killing Delhi Chief Minister Rekha Gupta. I made a huge mistake and I should not have done it. Please pardon me,” the police quoted the accused as saying, in the charge sheet.
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The chief minister was attacked during a ‘Jan Sunwai’ (public hearing) on August 20. Khimji along with his associate Tahsin Raja Rafiullah Shaikh alias Bapu were arrested in connection with the case.
Khimji had accused the Chief Minister of capturing dogs across the city.
Not only Khimji, but his co-accused, Tahsin Raja Rafiullah Shaikh alias Bapu, has also apologized for assisting in the deadly assault on the Delhi CM. The charge sheet quotes Tahsin as saying, “This was indeed a blunder that we made. I apologise. Please forgive me.”
Both individuals are currently in jail after their bail pleas were rejected by the court. The magisterial court has transferred the case to the Sessions Court, as the offences they are charged with are triable by a Sessions Court.
According to the charge sheet, Khimji’s motive stemmed from an extreme fixation on dog welfare. The document states that the sequence of events was triggered by a dream he had at his temple.
“I saw a dog next to a Shivling in my dream. It told me that dogs in Delhi are very troubled,” Khimji told investigators.
Acting on this vision, Khimji travelled from his home in Gujarat to the Mahakal Temple in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, to seek divine permission. In a strange ritual, he wrote ‘Yes’ and ‘No’ on two slips of paper and offered them to the deity.
“I threw both slips before Mahakal and picked one up. It said ‘Yes.’ For me, this was Mahakal’s order to go to Delhi and start a hunger strike,” the charge sheet quotes him as saying.
Khimji later borrowed Rs 2,000 from Bapu, and headed to the CM’s residence.
The chargesheet details that on the morning of the incident, Khimji gained access to the CM’s residence by telling the security he had a complaint about dogs.
“I met Chief Minister Rekha Gupta and told her to release the dogs she had captured in the last few days,” Khimji stated. When the CM explained that the dogs were impounded under a Supreme Court order, Khimji’s plan turned violent.
“I got very angry after hearing this. I slapped her with the intention to kill, grabbed her by the hair, and threw her to the ground and kept attacking her,” he confessed. He admitted that the assault was a direct result of her not agreeing to his demands.
Khimji has been charge-sheeted under sections 109 (1), 221, 132, 115(2), and 61(2) of the Bharatiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS). Co-accused Tehsin was charged under sections 109(1), 221, 132, and 61(2) of the same code.
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