HISAR: Hisar police have registered a case against five men and arrested one for allegedly threatening to give false evidence in the court in an under trial criminal case in Hisar court.
Hisar police said a case has been registered on the complaint of Surendra Kohli, former sarpanch representative of Talwandi Rana village and liquor contractor against Raman, son of Balwant, Raman, Pradeep and two unknown person under sections 147 (rioting), 149 (common object of unlawful assembly), 195-A (threatening to give false evidence), 294 (obscene acts) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the Indian Penal Code.
In the complaint to the police, he said on Friday evening he was sitting on his liquor shop that the said five people came in a car and threatened that if he testified in the court in the case registered against them, they would kill the whole family. He also alleged that the accused had made obscene gestures.
He said due to the old enmity, on March 1, above accused had also attacked him and fired in the air. In this case, these people are pressurising him not to testify in court, he said.
Police said after registering a case in this regard, its investigation has been handed over to assistant sub-inspector Mohinder Singh and one of the accused Raman has been arrested.
