HISAR: The Khattar government’s revision petition seeking to overturn lower court’s decision to try local BJP legislator, Dr Kamal Gupta and 20 activists of his party in a case of obstructing and assaulting two police officers in 2013 was on Wednesday dismissed by
Hisar additional sessions judge Ajay Parashar.
Gupta and his party workers were booked for allegedly throwing black oil on deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Sidharth Dhanda and sub-inspector Pradeep during a protest against the then Kurukshetra MP
Naveen Jindal and his alleged involved in the coal scam outside the Jindal House on June 12, 2013.
Gupta, who was the Hisar BJP unit chief at the time, was named in an FIR filed at Hisar
Civil Lines police station on complaint of DSP Dhanda.
BJP members Yogesh Bidani, Jogi Ram, Ravi Saini, Ramniwas, Subhash Chandra, Mukesh Gaur, Praveen, Ramniwas, Vijender Beniwal, Pradeep Khatkar, Pawan Kharia, Arun, Randhir Panihar, Sube Singh, Karan Singh, Rajendra, Prakesh Agarwal, Ramphal Bura, Phul Kumar and Naresh Nain were booked too. After the police report was submitted, charges were framed against all the accused and the witnesses’ statements were recorded in the trial court.
In April, additional chief judicial magistrate Surendra Kumar had rejected a revision petition filed by the Khattar government. On February 27, the Haryana government had filed an application under Section 321 of the Criminal Procedure Code (CrPC) to withdraw the case. The court asked DSP Dhanda and S-I Pradeep for a written reply. During the hearing of the case, both refused to file their reply and said if the court accepted the application to withdraw the case, then they would not have any objection. After that, the court rejected the government’s plea.
Gupta and the BJP workers were booked under Sections 147(punishment for rioting), 149 (unlawful assembly), 283 (danger or obstruction in public way or line of navigation), 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public function), 332 (voluntarily causing hurt to deter public servant from his duty), 353 (assault or criminal force to deter public servant from discharge of his duty), 451 (house-trespass in order to commit offence punishable with imprisonment), 511 (punishment for attempting to commit offences punishable with imprisonment for life or other imprisonment), 109 (punishment of abetment if the act abetted is committed in consequence and where no express provision is made for its punishment) and 324 (voluntarily causing hurt by dangerous weapons or means) of the IPC.
Case history
In Hisar, BJP workers led by party’s Hisar unit chief, Dr Kamal Gupta were protesting outside the then Congress MP Naveen Jindal’s residence on June 12, 2013. The CBI had on June 10, 2013 filed a case against Jindal, MP from Kurukshetra, in the coal scam.
During the protest, were booked for allegedly throwing black oil on the DSP, who was leading the police party at the spot and the sub-inspector
In 2014 Haryana assembly poll, Gupta defeated Naveen’s mother, Congress candidate Savitri Jindal by 13,646 votes in Hisar.
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