SON, NEPHEW IN DOCK, BARALA FISHES IN TROUBLED WATERS
CHANDIGARH: The beleaguered Haryana Bharatiya Janata Party chief Subhash Barala is fishing in troubled waters these days.
While the June 4 stalking case involving his son Vikas Barala (23), a law student at Kurukshetra University, has created an uproar that refuses to die, his troubles deepened after a case of a minor’s abduction by his nephew Vikram Barala in Fatehabad surfaced.
Barala, a first-time MLA from the Tohana assembly constituency in Fatehabad district, is seen as a promising Jat leader in the party and owes his ascendance to the top party post in the state to his caste and his proximity to chief minister Manohar Lal Khattar.
His position of influence is one of the factors that have caused so much public outrage in the stalking case against his son and his friend.
Vikram Barala, alias Vicky, was booked on May 7 for kidnapping a minor girl from Fatehabad’s Bidhaikhera village, which is also Subhash Barala’s native village.
The girl also alleged that Vikram and his friends thrashed her, and when her family members came to know about the matter, they blocked the HisarChandigarh road, demanding arrest of the accused. Tohana police, however, found the girl on a tip-off and she was sent to Nari Niketan in Karnal, according to the police reports.
Tohana Sadar station house officer (SHO) Pradeep Kumar said, “The girl had given a statement under 164 (recording of confessions and statement) of the Code of Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) before judicial magistrate. The FIR against Vikram still stands.”