Thursday, June 02, 2011

Ex-INLD legislator Bali finally surrenders

Express news service, Sat, May 28, 2011, Chandigarh:

After daring the Haryana Police for about three weeks, former Indian National Lok Dal (INLD) MLA from Meham Balbir Singh aka Bali Pahalwan finally surrendered before the police at Rohtak on Friday afternoon. Pahalwan, along with 20 others, was allegedly involved in an indiscriminate firing at Kalanaur grain market on May 5, leaving one person dead and eight injured.

He was taken into custody soon after his surrender along with his two accomplices Pawan and Dinesh. The former MLA also submitted four weapons, including three in his name. One was found to be without any authorisation.

Sources disclosed that Bali’s arms licence was not renewed after 2006 which makes the weapons in his possession illegal. Incidentally, Vishnu, who died in the May 5 incident, was shot using a .315 bore rifle. “It is yet to be verified if Bali’s arms licence was not renewed. His weapons will also be examined to ascertain if the bullet which killed Vishnu was fired from one of his weapons,” said Additional Director General of Police (law and order) B S Sandhu.

Hundreds of Bali’s supporters accompanied him in cars, jeeps, tractors, trolleys, buses and trucks to the office of V Kamaraja, Inspector General of Police, Rohtak range, where he surrendered at around 2.30 pm. His supporters kept on sitting outside the IGP’s office, till they were finally dispersed by the police, assuring a fair and impartial probe in the case.

The Haryana Police’s senior officers, including DGP Ranjiv Dalal and Sandhu, had been camping in Rohtak for the past three days to oversee Bali’s arrest. “We always wanted to avoid any commotion in the area, thus gave him time to come out of his hideout on his own and surrender. His movement was as such restricted. He finally surrendered,” Sandhu told The Indian Express.

Pahalwan and his two associates will produced in the court on Saturday.

So far, the police have arrested 15 accused on the charges of murder, attempt to murder and firing gunshots in the case.

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/exinld-legislator-bali-finally-surrenders/796483/0

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