Days after former state Congress chief Jagdish Thakor was named in an FIR alleging a man’s abduction over a land deal dispute in Gandhinagar district, Thakor and Vadgam MLA Jignesh Mevani demanded an investigation into the “illegal intervention” of a senior police officer in the said transaction.

At a press conference, which was also attended by advocate Anand Yagnik and two families who claimed to co-own the plot of land valued by them at approximately Rs 150 crore, Mevani said a “senior police officer” in Gandhinagar was trying to interfere in the sale, which was why he had been booked in two FIRs and Thakor, a former Congress MP, was mentioned in one.

On October 11, Mevani was booked in two FIRs, based on complaints by police officers in Gandhinagar, which charged him with rioting, obstruction of public servants, inciting communal disaffection, and violating campaign silence rules under the Representation of the People Act.

Advocate Yagnik said at the media interaction: “There is a piece of land…