Sarpanch  booked for using caste remarks  

Dilbag Singh 

Sarpanch  booked for using caste remarks  

 

NAKODAR 13 OCTOBER 

 

The Nakodar Sadar police have booked a Sarpanch of a village panchayat on the charge of using cast remarks and criminal intimidation.

 

Station House Officer (SHO) Hardeep Singh said that the accused has been identified as Pardeep Singh son of Major Singh Sarpanch of Talwandi Salem village.

 

Harmesh a leader of Khet Majdoor Union and a resident of Mallarri village complained to the Jalandhar (rural) Senior Superintendent of Police that he along with his colleagues came to Talwandi Salem village on September 7 in connection with preparation of celebration of Avtaar Pash’s birthday in Pash -Hans Memorial complex.

 

The complainant said that the accused sarpanch along with may accomplices came to complex and used caste remarks against him and his colleagues and assaulted, insulted and threatened him.

 

SHO said a case under section sections 3(1)-R, and 3(1)(S) of the Schedule Castes and Schedule Tribes Act 1989 and sections 351(3) (criminal intimidation) and 191(3) (rioting being armed with deadly weapons) of the BNS has been registered against the accused and further investigations are on.