Former Haryana Minister Nirmal Singh sent to judicial custody

Former Haryana Minister and Congress leader Nirmal Singh was sent to judicial custody in a case related to attempt to murder following an altercation with a mining contractor at Yamunanagar

Nirmal Singh is accused of firing at people in Belgarh village, Yamunanagar at a sand mining zone. He has been sent to judicial custody for 14 days.

A day before, Nirmal Singh and his associates were booked in a case of attempt to murder, Arms Act, dacoity, registered at Khizrabad police station. Yamunanagar. 

He is a member of Congress and was member of the legislative assembly Haryana Legislative Assembly for the years 1982, 1991, 1996 and 2005 from Naggal constituency. 

The former Minister was booked for opening fire on people after an altercation with a mining contractor and workers over the issue of right to passage in the mining area in Yamunanagar.

The police said that Nirmal Singh had fired 11 bullets during the incident. Some of the bullets had hit an earthmover while some were fired in air.

The former Minister reportedly owns a farmhouse in Belgarh village, which falls in the mining zone and the vehicles pass through his farm.  He had allegedly recently dug up trenches on the passage to prevent the vehicles from passing through his farm.

While Nirmal Singh claimed that the land belonged to him, the complainant and mining contractors said that it was the village common land.