The Mohali district police have registered a case against suspended assistant inspector general (AIG) of police Ashish Kapoor, already in custody in a disproportionate assets case, and two of his accomplices for allegedly assaulting a woman. A purported video of Kapoor slapping a woman in police custody went viral in March. The First Information Report (FIR) based on the complaint of the victim, Poonam Rajan, was registered against Kapoor, Hem Raj Mittal, director of the real estate firm Motia Group, and one Lovelish Garg under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 327 (voluntarily causing hurt to extort property, or to constrain to an illegal act), 323 (assault), 294 (obscene act in any public place), 506 (criminal intimidation) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) at the Zirakpur Police Station. The Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) in May arrested Kapoor for illegally acquiring immovable and movable expensive properties beyond his known sources of income in Chandigarh and Mohali cities in the last five years.
