Ludhiana: 250 booked for protests over minor’s death

LUDHIANA: Four days after the incident, the Division number 8 police booked at least 250 people protesting the death of a 14-year-old domestic help at her employer’s house in Kundanpuri, for stone pelting, damaging an ambulance and stealing cash from the vehicle.
The police lodged an FIR against Suman, Krishna, Shanti and Bhola and their unidentified 250 accomplices, on the complaint of Pardeep Sharma of Rishi Nagar, an ambulance driver.
Pardeep said he had come to Kundanpuri on July 18 to take the body of the deceased to the hospital. As he was about to leave from the spot in the ambulance, around 250 people blocked the road and started pelting stones on the ambulance and damaged it. He alleged that the accused had stolen Rs 3,500 in cash and documents of the vehicle.
The police registered a case under sections 160 (punishment for committing affray), 427 (mischief causing damage to the amount of fifty rupees) and 379 (theft) of IPC.