Shahkot Congress MLA, 12 others booked

Published on: 12 May 2023 at 01:37 PM

Published by: thefactnews

The Fact News Service

Jalandhar, May 12

Shahkot Congress MLA Hardev Singh Laddi Sherowalia and 12 others have been booked by Shahkot police for wrongfully restraining, using criminal force to deter public servant from discharging duty, restraining a public servant and rioting; for waylaying Baba Bakala AAP MLA Dalbir Singh Tong and another vehicle accompanying him during the polling for Jalandhar bypoll on May 10.

The Congress MLA and his supporters had said that AAP was clearly violating the official orders which directed outsiders to leave the constituency.

The FIR has been registered on a complaint given by AAP MLA’s private driver Gagandeep Arora who has acclaimed that he was driving the Gypsy vehicle, accompanying the MLA, in which four police personnel were there. The driver has claimed that they were going from Baba Bakala to Sultanpur Lodhi via Jalandhar –Nakodar and they diverted through villages roads as there was blockade in Malsian chowk.

“When we reached village Rupewal and MLA’s vehicle was ahead of the Gypsy I was driving, several Congress workers led by MLA Hardev Singh waylaid our two vehicles using a tractor. Then they pulled out key of my vehicle and when police personnel stopped them they rebuked them. They stopped us for a long time and you (police) got us released after much effort,” the FIR reads.