The Congress in Gujarat on Thursday targeted the BJP government and state police for the alleged inclusion of former state president and CWC member Jagdish Thakor’s name in an FIR – not as an accused — lodged at Adalaj police station in Gandhinagar in a land grabbing and abduction complaint.

The party also alleged that Jagdish Thakor’s was added as a third party in the case at the behest of a police officer, “who is facilitating land grabbing”.

The FIR was filed on October 21 based on a complaint filed by a woman claiming that her husband was abducted by three men over the sale of their land in August and that he hasn’t returned home since then.

The complainant, Kajal Popatji Thakor, 28, named three persons – Ravi Mansukh Thakor, Gabhu Babhu Rabari, and Baldev Rabari — as accused.

According to the complaint, she and her family members own a piece of land in Khoraj village and the family had decided to sell it to Ratilal Chaturdas Patel and Harishsinh Gohil.

The complaint stated, “One of the accused –…