Vocational teachers booked for injuring cops in Panchkula

Tribune News Service

Panchkula, October 26

The Panchkula police have registered a case against several vocational teachers for pelting stones and beating up policemen during a protest held here yesterday.

A woman cop, Anju Rani, in her complaint, stated that the vocational teachers started their march from the Sector 5 ground to Sector 18. After reaching Sector 18 on the Chandigarh border, the protesters tried to cross the barricading done by the Panchkula police and the Chandigarh Police.

Police and district administration officials asked the protesters to handover the memorandum to them, but they remained adamant on visiting the Haryana Chief Minister’s residence in Chandigarh.

All of a sudden, the protesters started beating up policemen. Police and administrative officials again tried to pacify the protesters. The protesters later started pelting stones at police officials, causing injures to them, including woman cops. The duty magistrate ordered the use of water cannon and mild lathicharge to maintain the law and order.

She said the injured cops were taken to the Civil Hospital in Sector 6, here.

After receiving the medico legal report of the injured cops from the Civil Hospital, the police registered a case against the vocational teachers under Sections 147, 149, 323, 332, 353 and 283 of the IPC at the Sector 14 police station.