Dec 13, 2024 10:55 PM IST
Police have registered instances in opposition to at the least 40 folks, together with village sarpanch Hardev Kaur. Purported movies of the conflict between villagers and police surfaced on-line. HT couldn’t independently confirm the veracity of the movies.
The police resorted to lathi cost to manage the crows after conflict erupted on Thursday in the course of the nominations for agriculture cooperative society elections in Raikot’s Tajpur village, officers stated.
Residents of RaikotTajpur village have accused the returning officer (RO) of favouring candidates from the ruling Aam Aadmi Get together. (HT File)
Purported movies of the conflict between villagers and police surfaced on-line. HT couldn’t independently confirm the veracity of the movies. Police have registered instances in opposition to at the least 40 folks, together with village sarpanch Hardev Kaur.
Others nominated within the case embody Gurjinder Singh, Sukhwinder Singh, Hardeep Singh, Gurjant Singh and Baljit Singh.
Villagers accused the returning officer (RO) of favouring candidates from the ruling Aam Aadmi Get together. In accordance with Hardev Kaur’s son, Baljit Singh, the RO rejected 16 nominations from opposition candidates and accepted these from the ruling celebration. He alleged that when villagers protested in opposition to the ‘bias’, police used pressure to interrupt up the demonstration.
Congress chief and constituency in-charge Kamil Amar Singh accused the officer of deliberately disqualifying opposition candidates.
The FIR was registered after a press release by Surinder Singh, inspector of the Co-operative Society Circle in Barmi village. He stated some nominations have been rejected attributable to errors and the explanations have been communicated to the candidates.
He stated the rejected candidates and their supporters barged into the society’s workplace and locked the officers inside. Singh claimed the protesters provoked villagers to hitch and attacked police after they intervened to free the locked officers