Bihar: Two cops return after pasting notice outside Navjot Singh Sidhu’s house

PATNA: A two-member police team, which had gone to Amritsar in Punjab with summons issued by a local court against cricketer and former Congress minister Navjot Singh Sidhu, returned to Katihar after a week on Saturday.
Katihar superintendent of police (SP) Vikas Kumar said, “Janardan Ram and Javed Alam returned from Amritsar after pasting a copy of the summon outside the residence of the accused.”
Sidhu is an accused in a 2019 case lodged with the Barsoi police station in Katihar district for delivering an inflammatory speech at an election rally on the campus of Dhatta upgraded high school.He had campaigned for Congress candidate Tariq Anwar in the Lok Sabha polls.
The SP said, “Now the investigating officer of the case will submit a petition in the court seeking warrant of arrest. The process of attachment of the accused’s property will be initiated after obtaining a relevant order from the court concerned.”
The complaint was lodged against Sidhu on the report of a magistrate deployed at the public meeting. Sub-inspector Janardan Ram was assigned to investigate the allegations levelled against the former Punjab minister.