Accusing the Dehradun police of not following provisions of the Panchayati Raj Act and accusing the investigating officer of confiscating Government documents from Congress leader and Gram Pradhan leela Sharma, resident of Galjwadi, in a case registered in 2016 against her, Uttarakhand Pradesh Congress Committee president Kishore Upadhyay and former Chief Minister Harish Rawat, Chakrata MlA Pritam Singh, former MlAs Mantri Prasad Naithani, Rajkumar, Congress Mahanagar president Prithviraj Chauhan and other Congress leaders staged a protest at the Cantt Police Station on Friday evening. Congress leader Prithviraj Chauhan alleged that police had not followed due procedures of Panchayati Raj Act and forcibly taken possession of the government documents from leela Sharma.
In accordance with the regulations, the police should have first taken the permission from the district magistrate concerned and the Tehsildar should have been sent to collect the said documents related to the case from leela Sharma. He alleged that the police were working under the influence of a particular Bharatiya Janata Party leader. The protesting politicians further said that the police had not given any receipt after for the documents they had collected from leela Sharma. The protesters warned that the Congress party will not tolerate any such act in future.
It should be mentioned here that Gautam Sharma, a resident of Galjwadi had registered a complaint and a case (FIR: 54/16) under sections 420/409/467/468/471/120b of Indian Penal Code which was registered against leela Sharma and others in the Cantt Police Station, informed the Police Station in-charge Shankar Singh Bisht.