In connection with the stone-pelting incident resulting in some police personnel being injured during a Congress rally for the Vidhan Sabha which was in session in 2009, State Congress president Kishore Upadhyay who had not appeared before the court on September 30 when six party leaders had surrendered did not appear before the Dehradun district court of CJM on Tuesday.
It is learnt that he did not appear after being asked to do so by his advocate. It is further learnt that the advocate asked Upadhyay not to surrender as CJM had gone on his scheduled Mussoorie camp. It should be mentioned here that earlier on September 30, six Congress leaders, including Rajya Sabha MP Pradeep Tamta and three State Cabinet ministers- Yashpal Arya, Dinesh Aggarwal and Pritam Singh-had appeared before the Chief Judicial Magistrate Court and were subsequently granted bail.
Notably, the Congress leaders led by Harak Singh Rawat had taken out a rally headed towards the Assembly when BJP was in power in 2009. After the protesters had been stopped at the barricade erected at Rispana, they tried to break it.
later, they had allegedly resorted to stone pelting that resulted in several cops on duty sustaining injuries.
Following the incident, then police station officer Chandan Singh had registered a complaint on the basis of which a case under appropriate sections of IPC had been registered against 25 Congress leaders, including Harak Singh Rawat, Pritam Singh, Yashpal Arya, Vivek Khanduri,
Surya Kant Dhasmana, Pritam Singh Chauhan, Pradeep Tamta, Hira Singh Bisht, Dinesh Aggarwal, Kishor Upadhyay, Subodh Uniyal, Kunwar Parnav Singh Champion, lal Chand, Sangram Singh, Mahesh Sharma, Vinod Rawat, Vijay Chauhan and Manish Nagpal, in Nehru Colony police station.