PANCHKULA: An Army Major was allegedly manhandled by Punjab police personnel after he detained a construction laborer here on Sept. 16.
The incidents follow confrontation building up between two neighbors over construction work underway on a plot of land.
Maj. B.S. Tiwana alleged that the bodyguards of Ropar Senior superintendent Police Sanjiv Gupta had beaten him up in the SSPs presence. Tiwana, who is posted as the Movement Control Officer (MCO) and residing here, said he “was dragged out of my house by five or six constables who slapped me.” Amrit Tiwana, his wife, says that the SSP stood by and guarded his men to beat up the Major.
Gupta, on the other hand, said he “happened to be at the spot” after he was informed over wireless that the Major had detained a laborer working at the plot owned by his brother in law, an Army officer posted at Amritsar.
Relating the sequence of developments, Amrit said, “While we were waiting for the police to come, two police Gypsies and a white Ambassador car came, he thought they were police who had come to take away the intruder.”
Article extracted from this publication >> September 24, 1993
