Tribune News Service

Amritsar, May 14

Days after a clash and firing in the Jallianwala Bagh Memorial Civil Hospital in which an emergency medical officer was injured due to a gunshot injury, the investigation took a curious turn when cross case was filed against those who had come to the Civil Hospital for treatment and the medico legal report.

The Civil Hospital firing was an outcome of a clash occurred in the Luv Kush Nagar area hours before the incident and an FIR was registered by the Cantonment police station in this connection.

In the FIR, the police had booked Raj Kumar Raju along with Sunny Sahota, besides their other accomplices on charges of illegal restrain, firing and creating law and order problem and under the Arms Act on the statement of Rahul Negi and his brother Madan Negi who were allegedly injured.

However, the police said following a probe and the statement of Vijay Kumar of Luv Kush Nagar near Putlighar said in fact it was Rahul Negi, Madan Negi and other accomplices who had attacked at the residence of Raj Kumar Raju and damaged their car before the retaliation by the other group. In his statement to the police, he said Negi brothers along with Ishwar Chohan, Santosh Kumar and others had a dispute with Raj Kumar. Negi brothers and his supporters had allegedly fired some gunshots and indulged in stone pelting.

The police said following this, a cross case had been registered and further investigation was under progress. A group of supporters of Raj Kumar and others who were booked in the case earlier had sit on a dharna outside the Cantonment police station seeking the arrest of the ‘real’ culprits who were roaming freely in the area. The dharna was lifted after Deputy Commissioner of Police Parminder Singh Bhandal assured them of an appropriate action in the case and immediate arrest of the suspects.