Singer Mika Singh has been booked for slapping an audience member at a concert in South-West Delhi on Saturday.
According to the police, Mika was booked for causing hurt and wrongfully restraining ophthalmologist Shrikant at the Pusa institute ground in Inderpuri.
Posted at Ambedkar Hospital in Mangolpuri, Dr. Shrikant was attending a performance organised by the Delhi Ophthalmological Society.
“In his complaint, Dr. Shrikant has said he was trying to communicate with a woman, who was participating in a gimmick that required segregation of male and female members of the audience. It was then that Mika summoned the doctor,” said a senior police officer.
“When Dr. Shrikant went on stage at Mika’s insistence, he was first asked why he disagreed with the singer’s directions. He was then slapped and escorted away from the stage by two of Mika’s bouncers,” the officer added.
The police said they were approached by the complainant soon after the incident. Meanwhile, the Delhi Police was forced to convert the complaint into a criminal case after a video pertaining to the incident emerged on the Internet.
Though senior officials remained incommunicado, a police source said Mika and his bouncers had been booked under Sections 341/34 (wrongful restraint and common intention) in addition to Section 323 (causing hurt).
