Sena leader Sudhir Suri held from Indore for ‘inciting enmity’

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 12

The Punjab Police today arrested Shiv Sena (Taksali) president Sudhir Suri from Indore in Madhya Pradesh. Recently, a video of him denigrating women and inciting enmity between different groups went viral on social media.

The Director General of Police (DGP), Dinkar Gupta, said 11 police personnel of Amritsar (Rural) drove non-stop for 21 hours to arrest Suri.

The DGP said a manhunt was launched to arrest him after the release of the said video, followed by another video in which Suri had claimed that the objectionable video had a voiceover of some other person.

The DGP said the first video went viral on July 8 and the Jandiala police had booked Suri under Sections 153-A, 354-A, 509 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and 67 of IT Act.

Gupta said he had directed the Punjab Bureau of Investigation to get the video examined from the Forensic Science Laboratory at the earliest. The DGP said he personally spoke to Vivek Johri, his counterpart in Madhya Pradesh.

The Punjab Police is now moving for bail cancellation before the Judicial courts concerned where Suri has already been bailed out.