MOHALI/BATHINDA: CISF constable Kulwinder Kaur was charged with “voluntarily causing hurt” and “wrongful restraint” in an FIR registered by Mohali police on Friday for her alleged act of confronting and slapping actor and newly elected BJP MP Kangana Ranaut at Chandigarh airport.
Kulwinder, whom CISF suspended after Kangana’s complaint, received support from individuals and organisations, some of whom offered her monetary and legal help if she was arrested or dismissed from service.
Cops scanning CCTV footage to verify MP’s allegations
Kulwinder Kaur, the CISF constable who allegedly confronted and slapped actor-MP Kangana Ranaut at Chandigarh airport on Thursday, has been booked under bailable sections 323 and 341 of IPC. Mohali police are scanning footage from CCTV cameras at the terminal to verify Ranaut’s allegations. “Action per the complaint filed by CISF has been taken. Further action is in process,” Mohali SSP Sandeep Garg said.
CISF DIG Vinay Kajla was quoted as saying that Kulwinder was “apologetic” about her “emotional outburst” – she allegedly confronted Kangana over her remarks about women’s participation in the farm agitation – but there was no official word from the force on this.
Sources said CISF will take action based on outcome of departmental inquiry against the constable. Kulwinder’s husband, too, is a CISF employee attached to the dog squad and is posted at the same location.
Among those who came out in support of the suspended constable was 82-year-old farm activist Mohinder Kaur, who had previously filed a defamation suit against Kangana for her remarks on the farm protest. “Kangana has no sense of how to speak. Since she has been elected as an MP, she should be polite. She tried to brand Punjabis as extremists. She used derogatory words for us,” the octogenarian said.
Kangana, now MP from Mandi in Himachal, had posted on X a picture of Mohinder as “dadi of Shaheen Bagh of Delhi” and alleged that “such women” would turn up at a protest site for Rs 100.
The actor had later deleted the post. Based on Mohinder’s defamation suit, a Bathinda court had issued an arrest warrant against Kangana that a bench of Punjab and Haryana HC had stayed.
Meanwhile, Punjab BJP president Sunil Jakhar has termed the airport episode “most unfortunate”. He said any form of violence as a means of expressing dissent was unacceptable and must be condemned.
