The Batala police have booked Lok Insaaf Party president and Ludhiana Atam Nagar MLA Simarjit Singh Bains for using “abusive” language against Gurdaspur Deputy Commissioner Vipul Ujwal.
Bains has been booked under Sections 186, 353, 451, 147, 177, 505, 506 of the IPC on a complaint filed by Batala SDM Balbir Raj Singh. Most of the offences are non-baliable, sources said.
The action came after a video clip showing MLA Bains using “abusive” language against the Deputy Commissioner went viral on social media.
The incident had occurred at the Civil Hospital when the MLA countered the bureaucrat over the alleged non-identification of the body of one of the persons killed in the blasts which rocked a firecracker manufacturing unit here.
Bains brusquely told the DC, “Eh tere baap da office nahi hai. Eh public da office hai, te tu public nu hi keh rehan ki bahar jao.” (This is not your father’s office. This is an office meant for the general public and here you are asking the public to leave.)
To this, Ujwal replied, “Either mind your language or I’m not going to talk to you.”
Bains was trying to help one Manjit Singh who was claiming that the administration was not serious in locating the body of his brother Satnam Singh who had lost his life in the blast.
Bains, however, said that the case registered against him is not based on his spat with the DC but part of a larger conspiracy hatched against him by Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh as retribution for the petition filed by him in the Ludhiana City Centre scam.
A police team has been sent to Ludhiana to arrest the MLA.
Bains told the press that he was only trying to help a victim.
“I was just trying to help a victim because the DC kept asking the victim to leave his office. I’m not afraid, and I’m not running away. Arrest me if you want,” he said.
“I will keep raising my voice against corruption and governmental apathy towards public matters,” he added.
The Revenue Officers Association, the Kanungo Association, the Patwar Union & the DC Office Employees’ Union have condemened the act of misbehaviour and intimidation by Sh. Simaranjit Singh Bains, MLA with DC, Gurdaspur; and have demanded strict action as per law@IASassociation
— Punjab IAS Association (@IasPunjab) 8 September 2019