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Pravin Togadia: Left office after tip-off on police encounter

Pravin Togadia said: "While I was offering Pooja yesterday morning, one person entered my office and said that I will be killed in police encounter."

A day after he went missing to purportedly evade arrest in a more than a decade-old case, Vishwa Hindu Parishad (VHP)’s International Working President Pravin Togadia made startling revelations at a press conference in Ahmedabad Tuesday, claiming that he received a tip-off that he would be killed in a police encounter.

“While I was offering Pooja yesterday morning, one person entered my office and said that I will be killed in police encounter,” Togadia said.

Togadia said he left his office after he came to know that Rajasthan Police was in Gujarat to arrest him and switched off his phone so that his location cannot be traced.

“I left office when I came to know that Rajasthan police had come to arrest me. I left office thinking my arrest would lead to chaos. I switched off my phone and went to Thaltej to an activists’ office,” he said.

He alleged that cases were foisted against him to muzzle his voice. In the middle of the media briefing, Togadia became emotional and broke down while narrating last night’s events. Togadia said he was on his way to the airport when he fell unconscious near Kotarpur.

“I contacted all my advocates in Gujarat and Rajasthan. They advised me to surrender before court. So I left for the airport to reach Jaipur. On the way, I fell near Kotarpur. I don’t remember anything else. I was alone covering myself with a shawl to dodge police,” he said.

He requested the Gujarat Crime Branch to not succumb to political pressure as he has done nothing wrong.

“I am not escaping. I have no complaints with Gujarat or Rajasthan police. All I have to say to Gujarat police that why were you going to search my room. Am I a criminal. Have not done anything wrong. I request Crime Branch not to get under political pressure,” he said.

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