LIP chief Simarjit Bains, PA and 5 others booked under rape and other sections
Kuldip Bhatia
Ludhiana, July 12
The City Police have booked Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) chief and Atam Nagar MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, his personal assistant (PA) Gogi Sharma and five others under various sections.
They have been booked under Sections 376, 354, 354-A, 506 and 120-B of the IPC for alleged rape, assault, making sexual advances, criminal intimidation and criminal conspiracy.
The other accused are Kulwant Singh; Sukhchain Singh; Paramjit Singh; Jasbir Kaur, sister-in-law of Bains; and Baljinder Kaur.
The police action came on the orders of Harsimranjit Singh, Additional Chief Judicial Magistrate, Ludhiana, on a petition filed by a resident of Ishar Nagar.
The case had assumed a political colour with opposition parties, mainly the SAD, starting an agitation for the registration of a case against the MLA while accusing the ruling Congress of supporting Bains.
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