Three booked for ‘misbehaving’ with int’l shooter

GREATER NOIDA: Police have booked three unidentified men for allegedly “misbehaving” with a 39-year-old international shooter over parking issues at her housing complex in Greater Noida on October 9 this year, officials said on Monday.

The complainant, Seema Tomar who shot to fame when she won the ISSF World Cup silver in the trap event in 2010, is the daughter of Prakashi Tomar, popularly known as ‘Shooter Dadi’, one of the oldest sharpshooters in the world. Seema is a native of Baghpat district in Uttar Pradesh.

Seema, who works as a senior clerk at the Army Cantonment in New Delhi, lives at Trident Embassy society in Greater Noida West.

Seema said at 2.15pm on October 9, when she returned to her housing complex from work, she saw a car parked in her reserved parking spot. “I asked the security guard to call the car owner and get the car removed. Three persons -- the car owner and two other men -- came and refused to remove the vehicle from there. This led to an argument, and they started abusing me. When I took out my cellphone to record the incident, one of them tried to snatch it away from me...Meanwhile, some of the residents reached the spot and helped me,” Tomar said, adding the trio even threatened her with dire consequences.

“I was surprised that the suspects abused me, and even tried to attack me inside my housing complex. I called the police and filed a complaint,” she said.

Seema alleged that there was a delay in registering an FIR. “I had to visit the police station three times before the officials registered a case on Saturday. The registration process needs to be smooth,” she said.

A case has been registered against three suspects under Indian Penal Code sections 323 (voluntarily causing hurt), 504 (intentional insult), 506 (criminal intimidation), and 352 (assault or criminal force otherwise than on grave provocation) at Bisrakh police station on Saturday, said SHO Anita Chauhan.

“The complainant had not met me in person, and it seems that she had filed the complaint at the local police check post. A sub-inspector had reached the spot after getting information about the incident. We registered the FIR as soon as we received the complaint, and an investigating officer has been designated to probe the matter,” Chauhan said.