Cross-FIR against Akalis for assault on Cong workers

FORMER SAD MINISTER BIKRAM MAJITHIA SAYS CROSS CASE IS AN AFTERTHOUGHT; AMRITSAR SSP SAYS IT WAS FILED ON MONDAY ITSELF

: Former Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) minister and Majitha MLA Bikram Singh Majithia’s relative Ravi Sidhu and seven Akali workers have been booked in a cross-first information report (FIR) for assaulting a Congress worker in Sadpur village.

On Monday, the police had booked senior Congress leader from Majitha constituency Sukhjinder Raj Singh Lali Majithia’s nephew Akashdeep Singh, five Congress workers and 25 unidentified people for assaulting a SAD worker, Sandeep Singh of Chogawan village.

Police had booked the Congress workers after Bikram Majithia, along with SAD workers, sat on a dharna outside the Jandiala police station against the assault on the party worker. The protesters had accused the Congress leaders of ‘disrupting the SAD campaign during the ongoing rural body polls.’

The cross FIR has been registered on the complaint of Jasmittar Singh, whose mother Paramjit Kaur is a Congress candidate for block samiti election in Sadpur zone.

Those booked in the cross FIR are Amrik Singh, whose mother is contesting the block samiti election on SAD’s ticket from Sadpur zone; Gurbaksh Singh, Sandeep Singh, Kashmir Singh, Amrik Singh, Gursharan Singh of Chogawan village, Randhir Singh of Bhoe village and Dharam Singh of Sadpur.

As per Jasmittar’s complaint, he was canvassing in Sadpur village on Sunday when the alleged assault took place. “During my campaign, Ravi Sidhu, who is a close relative of Bikram Singh Majithia, along with other SAD workers reached there and started making casteist remarks against me. They then started thrashing me and tried to drag me,” he said.

Amritsar rural SSP Parampal Singh said on the complaint of the victim, a cross was FIR under Sections 3 (1) (R) of Scheduled Castes/Scheduled Tribes (SC/ST) Act, and Sections 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) at the Jandiala police station.

He said the cross FIR was registered on Monday itself when the first case was registered against the Congress workers. However, the daily crime report (DCR) of didn’t show the cross FIR’s detail on Monday.

Even Lali Majithia didn’t tell the media about the cross FIR or the complaint lodged by the Congress worker against the Akalis on Monday.

On Tuesday, Bikram Singh Majithia, at a press conference, alleged that SAD workers were booked in the cross after a delay of 48 hours under pressure from the Congress.