Miscreants chase car, vandalise it; case registered

“When we reached Sector 6, the miscreants in three cars started following us. They were carrying wooden sticks to attack us. Their car hit our bike, and Sunil and I ran inside one of the houses in Sector 6, and dialed 100. We remained hidden there, until the police reached, while the motorcyle rider escaped on the bike,” said Naveen.

Around the same time, Sector 6 residents heard a huge commotion in the lane opposite the Command Hospital. Several eyewitnesses, some of them guards or drivers in the homes in that lane, said they saw a huge posse of men stop a car. They destroyed the car almost entirely with huge concrete slabs and big rocks, as could be seen at the spot. There was no trace of the men who had been inside the car.
It was the same blue Maruti Esteem, bearing Chandigarh registration number CH-01-R8195, that had allegedly hit Naveen and Sunil.
Naveen and Sunil, who were escorted by policemen to where the car was vandalised disclaimed all knowledge of who might have vandalised the car. But they told Chandigarh Newsline that they recognised all the men who had been in the car.

Naveen also told the police that one of them was Suneel Bangala, with whom he had an altercation at Kharag Mangoli on Monday night. In a police complaint, he had alleged that Bangla and his gang had attacked him and other people at the village with stones. Police officials had visited Kharag Mangoli late on Monday in connection with the incident.

Naveen alleged that Suneel and his group wanted to take revenge, and attacked him.

The police said there was rivalry between the two groups. The Station House Officer, Sector 5 Police Station, said that there had been several incidents of scuffles between the two groups in the past. He said six people had been arrested in connection with Tuesday’s incidents.

“We have taken action under sections 107 and 151 of the CrPC. Six accused have been identified and arrested on the basis of the complaint. These two groups have fought in the past, and the incident turned violent following last night’s complaint by one of the groups. The car belonged to one of the accused, Suneel, and further investigation is on,” said the Police Post Incharge, Sector 7.

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