A 70-year-old retired Army Colonel in Bengaluru has written an emotional appeal to the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee seeking its intervention to protect his family after his wife and sons were allegedly assaulted by their neighbours and unknown persons in collaboration with the management of their housing society over a property dispute.
On Wednesday, the letter, addressed to general secretary of the committee Manjinder Singh Sirsa was shared by him via Twitter with Chief Minister Siddaramaiah, who instructed the police to look into the matter.
Colonel R.S. Uppal (retd), a resident of Himgiri Meadows on Bannerghatta Road, in his complaint speaks of multiple verbal threats and insults issued to him by his neighbours in house number 176, and also alleges police inaction on his complaint. These neighbours, who moved in on April 25, and unknown accomplices did not back down when the police complaint was registered against them in the Hulimavu station on May 5, he writes. Instead, according to the complaint, on May 13, unknown people were allowed to enter the gated community armed with rods and other weapons and they assaulted Colonel Uppal’s wife and his two sons, one of whom had to undergo a surgery to recover.
He has alleged complicity by the owners’ association, stating that water supply to their house was disconnected on April 28 on the orders of the association’s president. He said they had been advised by the president to sell their property.
Mr. Sirsa told The Hindu on Wednesday, “We want the relevant sections of the Indian Penal Code, specifically sections 295A, 307 and 327 IPC to be made applicable so that the culprits do not escape. We have spoken to senior police officials and the family has been provided security for now.”
