Ex-MLA Simarjit Singh Bains surrenders in Ludhiana court in rape case, sent to 3-day police custody

Rajneesh Lakhanpal

Ludhiana, July 11

Lok Insaaf Party chief and former MLA Simarjeet Singh Bains on Monday surrendered before a court here in connection with a rape case. The 52-year-old Bains surrendered in the court of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Harsimranjit Singh. The court sent the former legislator to the three-day police custody.

Around 10.15am, Bains, along with accused Paramjit Singh Pamma, Jasbir Kaur, Baljinder Kaur and Pardeep Kumara alias Gogi Sharma, surrendered before the court.

The court had recently attached the property of Bains. Besides, the property of Paramjit Singh Pamma at Alamgir village was also attached. He, along with the other accused, was declared a proclaimed offender on April 12. His bail plea was also dismissed by the Court of Additional Sessions Judge Rashmi Sharma the same day.

When he did not get relief from the Supreme Court, the local police started raiding the hideouts of all accused.

The FIR was registered against him on the orders of a local court in July 2021. The chargesheet was filed before the court in December 2021. At that time, none of the accused were arrested.

The local police recently arrested his brother Karamjit Singh Bains and property dealer Sukhchain Singh in the case and they are in judicial custody.   

On November 16, 2020, the woman had moved an application to the Ludhiana Commissioner of Police, for registration of an FIR against MLA Bains, Kamaljit Singh, Baljinder Kaur, Jasbir Kaur, Sukhchain Singh, Paramjit Singh alias Pamma and Gogi Sharma. She sat on a dharna for long outside the Commissioner’s office seeking that the FIR be registered.

As the FIR was not registered, the woman moved a local court seeking directions for registration of the FIR and, thereafter, the case was registered.