Punjab Police books Congress MLA Sukhpal Khaira for threatening, defaming a SDM in Kapurthala

New Delhi, April 28

The Punjab Police have booked Congress MLA Sukhpal Singh Khaira in Kapurthala for allegedly threatening and defaming Bholath sub-divisional magistrate of Bholath in Punjab’s Kapurthala district. 

The police stated that the FIR has been registered on a complaint by SDM Sanjeev Sharma.

In his complaint to the chief minister on March 29, SDM Sharma alleged that he was being subjected to humiliation, mental torture, harassment and indignity by Khaira. He also alleged in the complaint, which was part of the FIR, that the Bholath legislator had been trying to obstruct him from smooth functioning and also mention that he allegedly received threats to him. 

The SDM also alleged that Khaira, in a live video on Facebook, tried to harangue him while asking unwarranted questions just to humiliate and demean him.

The police have registered an FIR against Khaira under IPC sections 186 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), 189 (threat of injury to public servant), 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 500 (punishment for defamation) and 506 (punishment for criminal intimidation).

Khaira in a tweet said, “The FIR against me is the result of extreme hatred and grudge that (Punjab Chief Minister) Bhagwant Mann bears in his heart against me. I only want to say I won’t be intimidated by gross misuse of state machinery and police by the CM to settle personal scores”.