Row with tenant turns ugly, 3 gunshots fired in Sector 15

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, February 15

Five persons, including Mannu Dubey, the husband of Chandigarh Mahila Congress president Deipa Asdhir Dubey, have been booked on a charge of opening fire outside Dubey’s house in Sector 15. The suspects allegedly fired three gunshots to threaten the house tenant and his friends, who were also “assaulted”, on the intervening night of February 14 and 15.

Bid to mislead cops?

The police said the suspect, Mannu Dubey, tried to mislead them by claiming that his tenant Gurdass Singh’s friends had opened fire after an argument broke out between them.

Complainant Gurdass Singh (23), a native of Sangrur district, reported that he, along with his friend Deepak, has been residing at the house for the past one year. He said on February 14, his friends Gurdeep Singh, Bhupinder, Ravi, Sunil, Gurmeet and Gagan visited the house to meet him.

The complainant said around 9.30 pm, he and his friends were going out to have dinner when the house owner, Mannu Dubey, and his accomplices obstructed their way and started arguing with him over repeatedly inviting outsiders to the house. Mannu and his accomplices allegedly thrashed the complainant and his friend Ravi.

The police said after the incident, the complainant and Ravi went to another house in Sector 15, where Ravi’s friends Manjit and Ashish also arrived.

Later during the night, the complainant and his friends returned to the rented accommodation to collect their belongings and their car, which was parked outside the house. In the meantime, Mannu and his accomplices — Jenta, Nikhil, Vishal and Tarsem Singh — who were carrying sticks and arms, caught hold of Manjit and started assaulting him. The police said Jenta reportedly fired gunshots into the air to threaten the victims and later escaped from the spot.

Mannu Dubey then informed the police and claimed that Gurdass Singh’s friends had opened fire. A case under Sections 341, 323, 336, 147, 149 and 506 of the IPC and Sections 25, 27, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act has been registered against the suspects at the Sector 11 police station. The police said the suspects were yet to be arrested.