Police inaction: On hunger strike, 90-year-old hospitalised

AMBALA: As the district police continue to shy away from acting against former transport minister Raj Kumar Saini and his kin in a criminal case, Prabhu Ram, 90-year-old father of the complainant, who was on hunger strike against police inaction, was rushed to hospital on Tuesday night.
For the past one week, Prabhu Ram, who accused the investigating officer of taking sides with former minister due to his influence and money power, was on hunger strike to press his demand for Saini's arrest.As Prabhu Ram was rushed to hospital after he felt uneasiness, his elder son Devi Dayal has decided to sit on protest against the office of assistant commissioner of police (ACP), rural, at Naraingarh on Wednesday morning.
Doctors attending Prabhu Ram said that he had complained uneasiness and his blood pressure too had become abnormal.
On Wednesday, family members of Prabhu Ram, including his son Pawan Saini, went to give a representation to DCP (rural), Ambala, Najnin Bhashin, who assured them to take appropriate action in this regard. "We are looking into the matter and we will definitely take strong action. Police is in the process of investigating the matter thoroughly," said Bhashin.
On March 4, Pawan Saini, a local businessman, son of Prabhu Ram, had got an FIR lodged against former state transport minister Raj Kumar Saini, resident of village Rasur of Ambala and eight others, including four of his brothers and nephew, for thrashing him after illegal confinement at Himachal-Haryana border on the night of March 3 over a dispute about drainage construction. The 90-year-old protestor's resentment was that police, including former ACP, Naraingrh, Venod Kumar, favored the former minister, by not taking action against him.
It was only after his condition deteriorated, Naraingarh SDM O P Sharma and ACP Mukesh Malhotra had rushed to the spot asking him and his family to withdraw the stir. "The ACP as well as SDM had assured through probe, but he refused to withdraw,'' officials in Ambala police said.