The Mohali Police has booked Constable Kulwinder Kaur under Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt) and 341 (punishment for wrongful restraint) for allegedly slapping actor and BJP MP-elect Kangana Ranaut but no arrests have been made in the case.
Both the offences are bailable.
Some farmer outfits on Friday threw their weight behind the constable who slapped Ranaut, saying the entire sequence leading to the incident needs to be properly investigated.
Kaur has been getting considerable support from several quarters and on Friday, an 'X' account, seeming to be of the suspended constable shared a tweet where she sounded defiant about her actions.
"I am not afraid of losing this job... I am ready to lose thousands of such jobs for my mother's respect," she said in Hindi.
Ranaut, in a video message, had on Thursday said she was hit in the face and abused by the constable during security check at the Chandigarh airport, the ugly fracas breaking out two days after she was elected to the Lok Sabha from Mandi in Himachal Pradesh.
(With PTI inputs)
Published 07 June 2024, 13:26 IST