An FIR was lodged at Botad town police station in 2023 for offences under sections 376(2)(n) (repeated rape) and 506(2) (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
The meeting was held at the premises of Rajput Samaj Bhavan in the Gota area of Ahmedabad between an all-Kshatriya nine-member BJP delegation and a committee of Rajput community leaders from across the state.
After the CCTV camera footages at the centres were scrutinised, the Surat District Education Officer (DEO) sent details of these students to the state education department to take further steps.
With Congress yet to announce its Lok Sabha candidate for Vadodara, a social media post from the Vadodara party unit general secretary Amit Ghotikar has become a talking point.
The latest legal recourse taken by Gokhale comes after Ahmedabad rural court on March 1 rejected his plea seeking that the case arising out of the December 2022 FIR be dropped.