Udham Singh Nagar police arrested a person, Gurbaj Singh, resident of Kilawati (Kunda), Kashipur on Thursday in connection with the case of a group of men being shown on video as harassing a couple and demanding money to set them free. This video went viral on social media on Wednesday.
Taking a strong note of the matter, State DGP BS Sidhu on Wednesday had directed the Udham Singh Nagar SSP Nilesh Anand Bharne to lodge an FIR against unidentified persons under appropriate sections of IPC and IT Act in the police station concerned and take measures to crack the case.
SSP Bharne subsequently formed a team and appealed to the people to provide information about the persons shown in the video. Police had initially faced difficulties with things being unclear as to the time and place of the incident. Besides, no one had approached the police with a complaint, he added.
Bharne said that as per preliminary investigation, the incident had occurred in Tumdiya Dam area under Kunda police station. He directed additional SP Kamlesh Upadhyay to look into the matter.
A case (FIR: 105/15) was registered under sections 354/386/ 323/506 of IPC and sections 66a/67 of IT Act against unidentified persons in Kunda Police Station on Wednesday.
Other team members were inspector Om Prakash Sharma, inspectors-Ramesh Singh Tanwar, BS Joshi, Nasir Husain, Ashok Kumar-Constables-Dhamendra Bharti, Puran Arya, Manoj Kohli, Pramod Kumar and Narendra Singh.
While searching the persons shown in the video, police received a tip-off, saying that one of the suspects was a resident of Kunda area. Acting on it, police arrested the accused. Police compared his face with that shown in the video and things were confirmed. In course of interrogation, the accused admitted to having been involved in the incident. He further said that the incident had occurred in July, 2014.