Firing incident: F Bar owner wants his name removed from FIR, files plea

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 21

Raising questions on the versions of the police, Gunkaran Singh, an owner of F Bar and Restaurant, has filed an application for discharging him from an FIR registered against him after a firing incident at the restaurant during the birthday celebrations of Sehdev Salaria, a BJP leader, on November 19, 2018 .

A case was registered on the complaint of Deepak Kundu against Chetan Munjal, Rinku, Rimpi, Rajesh Passwan and others under Section 307, 505 and 34 of the IPC and 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act. Kundu alleged that the accused opened fire on his friends and also attacked them with a bottle.

In the application filed through counsel Terminder Singh, Gunkaran Singh said even the complainant did not name him in the complaint. Similarly, statements of others also confirmed that the accused was not present on the spot when the incident took place. The Counsel said accused had directed his employee not to touch anything on a WhatsApp group message, which was placed on record.

Terminder Singh said that Gunkaran was not looking after the party or present at F-Bar on November 19, 2018. However, he was arrested without being apprised of the grounds of the arrest.

He said Gunkaran was arrested only for extorting money and Sehdev Salaria was neither a prosecution witness or an accused for the reasons best known to the Investigation Agency.