Arrest warrant against Mohali district planning panel chief

Ropar, November 26

In a six-year-old case of abetment of suicide, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate Ravi Inder today issued summons through non-bailable arrest warrant for Mohali District Planning Committee chairman Vijay Sharma Tinku.

A case under Sections 306 and 34 of the IPC was registered against Tinku, Vikram Batta, Raj Kumar and Ajay Kumar, alias Rinku, by the Morinda police on July 23, 2015, after alleged suicide by Varun Sharma. A suicide note was produced before the police by complainants Arun Sharma and Anil Kumar Joshi. Tinku, however, claimed he was already granted anticipatory bail by the Punjab and Haryana High Court in the case. Arun had alleged his father Rajesh Kumar had got employment at Tinku’s petrol station. Due to some monetary dispute, Tinku got a case registered against Kumar. The complainant told the police Tinku along with Rinku, Raj and Vikram used to pressurise his father to return the money and on July 22, 2015, the accused had a quarrel with Varun Sharma, complainant’s brother.

He also claimed he had received a call from his brother that the accused had abused him and due to this, he was going kill himself. Varun later died by suicide by jumping into the canal. On March 2, 2017, the police presented a cancellation report in the court against which a protest petition was filed by the complainant. The court treating it as private complaint fixed the case for preliminary evidence of the complainant. On September 16 this year, the complainant, however, suffered statement in the court withdrawing his protest petition and stated he had no objection if the cancellation report submitted by the police was accepted. — TNS

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