Molestation: Challan presented against AAP’s Rupnagar MLA

SANDOA’S FORMER LANDLORD HAD ALLEGED THAT WHEN SHE HAD GONE WITH HER RELATIVE TO THE MLA’S HOUSE ASKING FOR PENDING RENT, HE HAD ABUSED HER

RUPNAGAR: The Rupnagar police on Tuesday presented a challan in the court of chief judicial magistrate against Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) MLA Amarjit Singh Sandoa in a case of alleged molestation of a woman.

The police had registered a case under Section 354 (assault or criminal force to woman with intent to outrage her modesty), 294 (obscene acts and songs), 506 (criminal intimidation), 509 (word, gesture or act intended to insult the modesty of a woman), 323 (voluntarily causing hurt) of Indian Penal Code against the MLA on the complaint of a woman, Sandoa’s former landlord and a resident Giani Zail Singh Nagar, in July this year.

In her complaint, the woman alleged that she had given her house no. 354 in Giani Zail Singh Nagar on rent of ₹ 30,000 per month to Sandoa, who was contesting assembly elections as the AAP candidate from Rupnagar, in October last year.

She alleged said Sandoa vacated the house in May this year and did not pay the rent, electricity and water bills for April and amount for the damage caused to the house, which was estimated to be around ₹3 lakh.

The woman said that she had contacted Sandoa several times for the payment of rent and bills, but to no avail.

She alleged when she and her relative Satinder Dhaliwal reached Sandoa’s house and asked for the pending rent, he abused her and pushed her.

He also caught hold of her hand and dupatta, she alleged, adding that he also threatened to kill her if she ever asked for money.

However, Sandoa had refuted the allegations and termed the registration of case against him politically motivated.

After leader of opposition Sukhpal Singh Khaira termed the case as political vendetta, the police had formed special investigating team (SIT) to probe the matter. The SIT found the allegations to be true in probe.