Congress MP Ravneet Bittu, former minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu arrested for locking Ludhiana MC office

Ludhiana, March 5

Congress MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, former minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, along with other two party leaders were arrested on Tuesday in a case registered against them for allegedly locking the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation office here.

According to officials, the Congress leaders were arrested outside police commissioner’s office.

Ludhiana police commissioner Kuldeep Singh Chahal said four leaders who were named in a FIR, for creating a ruckus outside the Ludhiana MC office, were arrested.

Ravneet Bittu, Bharat Bhushan Ashu, district Congress president Sanjay Talwar and former senior deputy mayor Sham Sunder Malhotra were produced in a court, which sent them to judicial custody.

Others unidentified persons booked in the case would be arrested soon, he added.

Notably on February 27, high drama was witnessed outside the Zone A office of the Ludhiana Municipal Corporation after the Congress unit held a protest and later stormed into the office and locked its gate.

On February 29, a case was registered against Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu, former Minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu, former MLA-cum-district Congress president Sanjay Talwar, senior deputy mayor Shyam Sundar Malhotra former and 60 unidentified persons.

A case was registered on the complaint of Amit Kumar, a watchman at MC Zone A office, under Sections 186 (whoever voluntarily obstructs any public servant in the discharge of his public functions) and 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty) of the IPC.