Cong MLA’s brother detained

Tribune News Service

Faridabad, November 2

The police detained Munesh Sharma, elder brother of Congress MLA from Faridabad-NIT segment Neeraj Sharma, in a case of an alleged attack on the office of a rival candidate in the recently concluded polls.

Munesh and three others were in the CIA police station in Badkhal while Neeraj and his supporters were stationed there, seeking their release. They were freed after questioning.

Charging the police of undue harassment and victimisation, the Congress MLA claimed that his brother and five others had been booked wrongly on a complaint made allegedly by the candidate who lost to him in the recent elections. Neeraj said he himself had produced four of the six persons, including Munesh, after the CIA claimed that they were booked under various sections of the IPC in a case registered on October 25.

Claiming that while the accused had been made to sit in the CIA police station since Saturday morning, he said the police were not informing them about the status of this move as Munesh had neither been produced in the court nor released so far. Alleging a political conspiracy, he said the senior police officers were also not responding to his calls.

While the Commissioner of Police and the ACP (Crime) did not respond, Sube Singh, PRO of the Police Department, said the accused may have been called for investigation into a complaint registered against them. No one has been arrested or taken into custody in this connection so far, he added.