Ludhiana: Actor Jimmy Sheirgill, others booked for violating Covid norms

The FIR was registered against Sheirgill, director Eshwar Niwas from Mumbai, and two other crew members — Akashdeep Singh from Ludhiana and Mandeep Singh from Zirakpur.

Jimmy Sheirgill was shooting for Your Honor in Ludhiana. (Photo: SonyLIV/YouTube)

The Ludhiana city police Wednesday booked actor Jimmy Sheirgill, director Eshwar Niwas and 32 others for allegedly violating Covid guidelines and shooting for a web series during curfew hours, at a school in Ludhiana.

Police said that the team of web series ‘Your Honor’ was found shooting at Arya Senior Secondary School in Ludhiana Tuesday night after 8 pm, in violation of curfew orders which begins 6 pm across the state. As per police, there was a gathering of at least 100-150 persons at the site.

Sub-inspector Maninder Kaur from division number 1 police station, said that an FIR was registered against four identified persons — Jimmy Sheirgill, director Eshwar Niwas from Mumbai, two other crew members — Akashdeep Singh from Ludhiana and Mandeep Singh from Zirakpur. Thirty unidentified persons have also been booked.

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An FIR has been registered under Sections 188 (disobedience to the order duly promulgated by public servant), 269 (negligent act likely to spread infection of any disease dangerous to life) of IPC and Section 3 of the Epidemic Diseases Act.

Kaur said that Eshwar Niwas, Akashdeep Singh and Mandeep Singh were arrested in the case and granted bail on the spot.

Adapted from an Israeli show ‘Kvodo’, Sheirgill-starrer ‘Your Honor’ is a web series in which he plays the role of a judge based in Ludhiana whose son gets involved in a hit-and-run case. He is then caught between his conscience as a judge and love for his son.

Eshwar Niwas directed film ‘Shool’ had won the national award for the best Hindi feature film in 1999.

Divya Goyal

Divya Goyal is a Principal Correspondent with The Indian Express, based in Punjab. Her interest lies in exploring both news and feature stories, with an effort to reflect human interest at the heart of each piece. She writes on gender issues, education, politics, Sikh diaspora, heritage, the Partition among other subjects. She has also extensively covered issues of minority communities in Pakistan and Afghanistan. She also explores the legacy of India's partition and distinct stories from both West and East Punjab. She is a gold medalist from the Indian Institute of Mass Communication (IIMC), Delhi, the most revered government institute for media studies in India, from where she pursued English Journalism (Print). Her research work on “Role of micro-blogging platform Twitter in content generation in newspapers” had won accolades at IIMC. She had started her career in print journalism with Hindustan Times before switching to The Indian Express in 2012. Her investigative report in 2019 on gender disparity while treating women drug addicts in Punjab won her the Laadli Media Award for Gender Sensitivity in 2020. She won another Laadli for her ground report on the struggle of two girls who ride a boat to reach their school in the border village of Punjab. ... Read More

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