3 detained for attack on BJP leaders' vehicles

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 18

The Chandigarh Police have detained three people in connection with the Saturday incident where the vehicles of Mayor Ravi Kant Sharma and BJP co-incharge for Himachal Pradesh Sanjay Tandon were vandalised by some “anti-social elements” during a protest held in support of farmers outside the motor market in Sector 48.

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The three people have been taken to a police station at Sector 49.

While pro-farmer organisations, including Chandigarh’s Naujawan Kisan Ekta, have repeatedly said that none of their volunteers attacked the BJP leaders’ vehicles, they have been arrested and allegedly beaten by the UT Police.

When contacted, SP City Ketan Bansal said, “We have not made any arrests today and are only trying to identify vandalisers.”

On pro-farmer WhatsApp groups, picture of a man, who has been allegedly missing since yesterday’s protest, is doing the rounds.

Advocate Ravinder Singh, former president District Bar Association, Chandigarh, said, “Some of the people were rounded up at 1 am. Our organisation Lawyers for Humanity will provide free legal aid to the arrested people.”

Meanwhile, the three arrested people are being taken to the District Courts at Sector 43.