HC issues contempt notice to DGP, city police chief

Ludhiana: The Punjab and Haryana high court has issued a contempt notice against director general of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav, Ludhiana police commissioner Mandeep Singh Sidhu and three others officials of Ludhiana police commissionerate for not taking action on the complaint of a Ludhiana-based Hindu outfit leader despite the orders of the court.
The court had asked the cops to probe the complaint of the leader — Rishabh Kanojia of Shri Hindu Takht — and file a report within 28 days, but the police officials failed to act on the order.
In his petition, Kanojia had said on January 19, an ACP-ranked official had called to meet him at Jalandhar bypass. The ACP made him to sit in a car and took him to the Punjab Police Academy (PPA) Phillaur. An official vehicle of Salem Tabri police station with at least six policemen escorted them.
Kanojia had claimed that after reaching PPA, he was taken to a room of a DIG-ranked official against whom he was already pursuing complaints. There, the officer thrashed him and told him to withdraw the complaint filed against him. Initially, he had been scared, but later he had filed a complaint with the Ludhiana police on March 2. As no action was taken, he had moved the high court.
The leader said the HC had issued a notice to the police commissioner on April 21 and ordered him to file a reply besides submitting CCTV footage and locations of mobile phones of the officers concerned. The police nor took any action, not filed a reply in the court. So, he filed a contempt petition following which the court has issued a contempt notice to the DGP, police commissioner Mandeep Singh Sidhu, joint commissioner of police Saumya Mishra, additional deputy commissioner of police-1 Rupinder Kaur Sra and sub-inspector Kuldeep Singh, SHO, Daresi police station.