Cops summoned over Ramdev crackdown

NEW DELHI — Six policemen, named in a charge sheet led in connection with last year’s crackdown on yoga guru Baba Ramdev and his followers at Ramlila Maidan here, have been summoned by a Delhi court on July 7.

Metropolitan Magistrate Anil Kumar accepted the sets of charges led by police and said: “I have perused the charge sheet and documents led by the investigating of cer. I hereby take cognizance of offence under section 336 (act endangering life or personal safety of others) of Indian Penal Code (IPC).”

The court in its June 4 order said: “Let accused persons named in the charge sheet be summoned through investi- gating of cer for July 7.”

Additional Commissioner of Police Devesh Chandra Srivastava yesterday said the six police personnel chargesheeted were SubInspector Sushil Kumar, Head Constable Vijender and Constables Ravi, Dinesh, Tejinder and Krishan Pal.

A police of cial said that 11 Ramdev supporters were also named in the charge sheet for the offence of endangering life.

He added that 10 out of the 11 accused, most of them members of Ramdev’s party Bharat Swabhiman, were arrested after the incident.

Police told the court that investigations were going on for the identi cation of other people involved in the case.