Taking note of the recent death of a renowned dancer Kulwinder Kaur during celebratory firing at Bhatinda in Punjab and such incidents happening frequently in Dehradun, Dehradun SSP Sweety Aggarwal said on Monday that they were distressed over deaths or injuries being caused by such incidents. “We would do everything to stop people from dying or being injured in cases of such firing,” she said.
Such incidents occurring at regular intervals across the State and, more particularly in Dehradun and Haridwar districts, the latest in Dehradun occurred on November 28 night when a sub-inspector RS Kholiya, deputed at Kotwali, was injured as a bullet fired from a licensed gun by one Jaspal, resident of Roorkee, by way of celebratory firing at Karanpur area under Dalanwala police station hit him in the muscled part of his leg.
In the incident preceding the latest one, a person was killed in celebratory firing during a marriage ceremony at Premnagar on April 22, 2016. The groom Monu who was a constable and one Amit working with SOG were arrested.
In June, 2015, such an incident was reported from lord Venkateshwara Wedding Point just outside the Secretariat. Around eight rounds of celebratory firing had taken place, police had said.
The controversial former MlA from Khanpur Pranav Singh ‘Champion’ and his supporters resorting to celebratory firing to welcome his son Divya Pratap who had won the bronze medal in international Junior Shooting Championship, created ripples across the state again in June 2015.
Champion comes up in the news off and on for wrong reasons because of his penchant to resort to celebratory firing. He hogged critical glare when he did the same at the residence of the then cabinet minister Harak Singh Rawat in Dehradun in March 2014.
Dehradun Police raided a banquet hall located on Outer Ring Road in Raipur where so-called celebratory shots were fired during a marriage ceremony, seriously injuring a 14- year- old boy Vivek Negi, resident of Nehru Gram on May 15, 2015.