State Cong president to move Delhi court

Tribune News Service

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New Delhi, October 15

Haryana Congress president Ashok Tanwar today said he would approach a local court in Delhi to build pressure on the Delhi Police for action in the matter involving his manhandling on October 6. Tanwar was allegedly beaten up during a Congress event in central Delhi by supporters of former Haryana Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda.

Addressing mediapersons here, Tanwar said the Delhi Police had taken hours to register a case in the incident. He also said he would request the court to add Section 307 IPC (attempt to murder) in the FIR lodged at the Tilak Marg police station.

Tanwar was, however, on the defensive about a counter FIR against his aide on the complaint given at the North Avenue police station by Ram Manohar Lohia hospital doctors, who attended to Tanwar on the night of October 6.

Doctors on duty at the hospital, a Central government institute, alleged that one of Tanwar’s relatives had threatened them and brandished a small gun inside the campus that night when he was brought for treatment.

Doctors alleged that Tanwar’s relatives were pressuring them to act in a certain way and threatening them. An FIR has been accordingly lodged against Tanwar’s aide.

Countering that FIR, Tanwar said, “The person against whom an FIR has been lodged is the same person who fainted outside the Tilak Marg police station on October 7, trying to get my case registered. It is strange. I will be approaching the court and this I will be doing in my capacity as a private individual and not a Haryana Congress leader.”

Asked to cancel protest

Tanwar and his supporters had to cancel a protest they had called this morning against the alleged Delhi Police injustice. The cancellation happened after Congress vice-president Rahul Gandhi’s budged Tanwar and he was reminded that senior party leader Sushil Kumar Shinde had already been told to look into the entire matter and his probe was to begin on Monday.