Independent MlA Simarjeet Singh Bains, along with the members of Team Insaaf, on Monday staged a protest against the cable operator network for supending
services of a satellite Punjabi news channel.
Bains, along with his 15 supporters, was arrested by the ludhiana police after the protest turned violent.
During the protest, joined by some of the journalists, one scribe was also roughed up.
The situation turned violent when the police tried to stop the supporters of Simarjit Singh Bains who were trying to enter the Grand
Walk Mall where office of the cable network operator is located.
The police resorted to baton charge to stop the protesters from entering he office forcing the protesters to run to the other side of the road. Turbans of many of the protesters including that of Simarjit Bains fell off.
later, the protesters started pelting stones on the
police and at the mall building.
The police then rounded up protesters and
cane charged them individually.
Police arrested 15 supporters of Bains and 15 other supporters under nine sections of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) including 332, 363, 364, 334, 323, 186, 148, 149 and 179.
ADCP (crime) Balkar Singh said that 10 policemen had been injured during the stone pelting by supporters of Bains.