Tribune News Service

Nabha, August 23

Senior leader of the Bhartiya Janata Party (BJP) and renowned businessman Om Prakash Jindal has been arrested for obstructing a government servant from carrying out his duties.

The arrest has been made by the Nabha police after an inquiry conducted by the Superintendent of Police (Headquarters) indicted him in his report.

Jindal had not only obstructed a demolition work, but also allegedly made casteist remarks against some members of the demolition squad in the presence of large number of gathering, which came to witness the drive. The case dates back to January 19, 2018, when the then executive officer of the Municipal Council, Mohit Sharma, lodged a complaint with the Kotwali police against Om Prakash Jindal for obstructing the civil servants from carrying out the demolition work.

The MC authorities had ordered demolition of 20 shops constructed illegally by the BJP leader in the market on January 19, 2018.

The police, on the complaint of the EO, had registered a case under Sections 186, 353, 323, 420, 148, 149 of the IPC and Section 3/1 of the SC-ST Act.

The MC authorities had ordered demolition of 20 shops which were built by encroaching upon the land on both sides of the sewage drain.

The authorities had claimed that several notices had been sent to the owner of the shops to stop the illegal construction. They had also pasted the notices on the walls.

However, Jindal had earlier claimed that he had got the architecture of the market passed from the MC and had alleged that the MC president and minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot had demanded bribe to pass the project, which was rejected by him.