CHANDIGARH: Security men of the Punjab Chief Minister, Beant Singh’s grandson allegedly beat up a woman and her son allegedly following a quarrel over cricket and threatened them with dire consequences if the matter was reported to the city police, sources said. The police control room did not act for 45 minutes and the area police did not act over the case even after a formal report was lodged at the Sector 9 police post. The victims have now approached the Senior Superintendent of Police, Sumedh Singh Saini, to at least get an assurance that the incident would not be repeated even as their whole family and neighbors continue to live in panic. About a dozen policemen, half of them in civil dress, arrived in a Gypsy at House Number 3399 in Sector 19 and inquired about Bantu, a student in the local D.A.¥Y. school and son of a Punjab government employee who lives there. As Bantu was away, his brother was wanted. In reply, he was slapped and threatened. When his mother, Sudarshar Sharma, intervened, she was first roughed up and then beaten by the cops. This all continued for about five minutes and when people pandered around, the cocky cops left; warning them not to report the matter to the police.
An eyewitness said that while the security men were intimidating the family, a Countess car without any number plate remained parked there and left along with the accused cops’ Gypsy. Narrating the incident, Sudershan Sharma said her son Bantu and Beant Singh’s grandson used to play cricket together at the Sector 18 stadium and had a quarrel over some trial matter some days ago. The incident was a repression of that quarrel, she alleged.
Eyewitnesses say that they informed policemen at the local Police station about the incidental The control room was also in formed but the PCR reached after about 45 minutes and policemen from the police post I’m Sector 9 did not arrive at all. A formal complaint was lodged with the police post and when things did not move. Sudarshan Sharma and Anuj Sharma met the SSP who reportedly asked the concerned SHO to trace and arrest the culprit cops.
Article extracted from this publication >> May 22, 1992
