Ex-sarpanch, wife booked in stone-pelting incident

In a stone-pelting case at village Khanpur yesterday, the police have registered a case against eight persons, including a former sarpanch, his wife and one women. Apart from this, 90 more unidentified people have been accused of pelting stones. No one has been arrested yet.

According to an FIR filed by police, Rohit Mahimi, a constable, told the police that on October 15 evening, around 6:30 pm, they got information that an argument took place at a polling booth in Khanpur village and an unsuccessful candidate along with her supporters was creating a ruckus and the polling staff were not allowed to come out of the polling booth.

The vehicle of SDM was also stopped. After getting information, the police reached Khanpur. DSP Jaspreet Singh was already present there. He alleged that when the polling party was evacuated, former sarpanch Ashok Kumar, his wife who had lost the election for sarpanch, along with Bahadur Singh, Surjit Singh, Balveer Singh, Dr Harbhajan Mahimi, Satnam Master and another woman Jassi, all residents of Khanpur, and eighty-ninety more people started throwing stones on the police. Rohit and SHO Baljinder Singh were injured in it.

Meanwhile, SP Major Singh also reached there and people attacked his vehicle with bricks, breaking the windshield of his vehicle. Seeing the situation going out of control, the police had to fire in the air to protect themselves and to drive the people away from there.