Shergill summoned in defamation case

Tribune News Service

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Chandigarh, March 29

Former ADC PS Shergill was today summoned by Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM) in a criminal defamation case filed against him by Chandigarh Congress president Pardeep Chhabra in connection with the booth allotment scam.

The CJM has issued the notice for April 24. Shergill has been summoned in an offence of defamation. It was regarding preparing the booth scam report and “implicating Chhabra.”

“Nine witnesses were examined and this fact also proved that Shergill was transferred in January but despite that he signed the report in February when he was not in service in Chandigarh. And in the report, Pardeep Chhabra was implicated to be defamed,” said his counsel Terminder Singh.

Chhabra had moved a local court in March 2011 seeking initiation of criminal defamation proceedings against Shergill. The complaint was filed after the inquiry report submitted by Shergill, accused officials of the Estate Office, the police as well as the Congress leaders, including Chhabra, of being involved in illegal allotment of booths in Sector 41.

In his complaint, Chhabra had stated during Diwali, he had objected to the setting up of cracker stalls in Sector 22, which led to arguments with Shergill. According to him, after his intervention, the hawkers were allowed to put up stalls.

The ex-Mayor further added in his plaint that Shergill felt humiliated and insulted and threatened to redress his grievances. So, this incident made him make derogatory and unwarranted remarks in his report