Two unruly sisters attacked a former Deputy Superintendent of Police (DSP) of Uttar Pradesh, and his family members with a knife, injured a Delhi Police officer on duty, and dragged a two-wheeler for over half a kilometre with their car, while trying to flee arrest in East Delhi’s Vasundhara Enclave area.
All hell broke loose in the wee hours of Saturday when the 74-year-old former DSP Ashok Sharma, who is also a cancer patient, asked the two women, namely 21-year-old Charvi Jain and 23-year-old Bhavya Jain to stop honking repeatedly in the society. They both have been arrested.
A senior officer said, “On Saturday at about 12.26 am, a PCR call was made by Ashok Sharma that two girls had beaten him. They were blowing the horn of their swift car again and again in the society. He asked them to not do so upon which they assaulted him.” Both the accused and Kumar were residents of Aniket Apartment. The retired man was injured and taken for medical treatment at Lal Bahadur Shastri (LBS) hospital.
Following the incident, on the same day at about 6.37 pm, the police received a PCR call stating that two ladies had a knife and were quarrelling with the caller. The police team rushed to the Aniket Apartment where complainant Reena, daughter of Ashok Sharma, alleged that she as well as her sister Pratibha was standing outside her parental home when the sisters attacked them.
“Two ladies came and started to beat them. Bhavya had a big knife in her hand which was later taken off successfully. However, the sisters beat them, and their mother Shanti,” the officer said, adding that while conducting enquiry from the local residents, and the victim, the alleged ladies were in their apartment and refused to come out despite repeated warnings. To force them out, police instructed that the electricity and water supply to the apartment be cut off. Meanwhile, some residents deflated two tires of the sisters’ Swift Dzire car.
“Suddenly both women came out from their flat and swiftly sat in their car, and accelerated the vehicle to kill the public as well as the police team. Anyhow, the police team and residents tried to save themselves. However Head Constable Sunil got a fracture in his leg and other public persons Ashok Sharma, Pravin and Panday got injuries and are under observation,” another officer added.
While fleeing, the women hit 36-year-old Joginder Singh, who was standing with his Scooty outside the society on the roadside, and fell down. “His Scooty was dragged till about 700 metres. Police staff chased them and both were overpowered in Noida with the help of Uttar Pradesh Police,” he said, adding that two cases were registered against them.
A total of four FIRs have been registered at New Ashok Nagar police station against the two accused on the basis of complaints filed by former DSP Sharma, his daughter Reena, head constable Sunil and scooter rider Joginder.
The two sisters have been booked under various sections of BNS including 109 (2) (attempt to murder), 115 (voluntarily causing hurt), 126(2) (wrongful restraint), 221 (obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions), and 132 (assaulting or using criminal force against a public servant).
Sources said that both the sisters have a history of confrontational behaviour, including an alleged incident in which they took a security guard hostage in September whose skin they burnt with hot iron. The two sisters were previously booked in September in a case in which Non-Bailable Warrant (NBW) proceedings are underway against them. They had also poured dirty water on a police team previously. Investigation in all the cases are in progress under ACP Kalyanpuri, police said.
