Simarjit Singh Bains declared PO, property attached

Legal Correspondent

Ludhiana, April 12

Judicial Magistrate Harsimranjit Kaur has declared former MLA and Lok-Insaaf Party chief Simarjit Singh Bains and six others proclaimed offenders in a rape case. Bains’ property has also been attached.

Others declared proclaimed offenders include Karamjit Singh, Pardeep Kumar, Baljinder Kaur, Jasbir Kaur (alias Bhabhi), Sukhchain Singh, Paramjit Singh (alias Pamma) and Gogi Sharma.

A direction has been issued to the SHO concerned to register an FIR against them under Section 174-A of the IPC for not appearing in the court despite issuance of proclamation. In another development, the court of Additional Sessions Judge Rashmi Sharma dismissed the anticipatory bail petition moved by Bains and others.

The FIR in the case was registered on the orders of Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Harsimranjit Singh in July 2021 and the chargesheet was filed in December 2021. But none of the accused has been arrested till date. On November 16, 2020, the woman had moved a handwritten application to the Commissioner of Police, Ludhiana, for the registration of an FIR against MLA Bains, Kamaljit Singh and others. She staged a sat-in for a long period outside the office of the Commissioner of Police, seeking the registration of an FIR.