Kandola wants media to stay away, files application in court

JALANDHAR: Drug lord Ranjit Singh alias Raja Kandola has filed an application in court seeking directions to keep the media away from covering his routine hearings in the court

Updated At : 07:07 AM May 31, 2016 IST

Drug kingpin Raja Kandola

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, May 30

Drug lord Ranjit Singh, alias Raja Kandola, has filed an application in court, seeking directions to keep the media away from covering his routine hearings in the court.

Acting on his complaint, the court has sent the application to the Police Commissioner for compliance.

In the application, Kandola has requested the court to restrain mediapersons from covering the case and clicking the photographs. He has requested through his counsel to ask the Police Commissioner to take appropriate action forthwith and to issue directions to ensure the security of his life, limb, liberty and reputation.

Station House Officer of the New Baradri police station, Balwinder Singh, said the police would take the necessary action on the directions of the Police Commissioner.

During the last hearing on May 17 here, Kandola had created a huge drama at the court complex. He, along with wife Rajwant Kaur, and son Bally Singh, had appeared in the court pertaining to the ongoing trial in a drug racket and the Prevention of Money Laundering Act. Then Kandola had turned violent after he noticed several photojournalists waiting to click their photographs and he had also smashed his head in the bus. He had also made some abusive gestures towards the media men while sitting in the bus. Kandola, his wife and son had then also been booked in a fresh case by the New Baradari police station for creating nuisance in the court complex. They had been booked under Section 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the IPC and Section 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions) of the IPC.