Punjab Minister Aman Arora, 8 others, get 2 yrs imprisonment in 2008 case

Punjab Minister Aman Arora and eight others were sentenced to a two-year imprisonment by a court in Sangrur district on Thursday in a 15-year-old case in which a relative of Arora had accused him of attacking him in his house.

The court of Gurbhinder Singh Johal, Sub-divisional Judicial Magistrate, Sunam, convicted Arora and eight others in a 2008 case filed on the complaint of the Minister’s brother-in-law Rajinder Deepa.

Arora holds the new and renewable energy, printing and stationery, employment generation, and training and governance reforms portfolios in the Bhagwant Mann cabinet. The nine were booked in the matter under several sections of IPC, including 452 (house-trespass) and 323 (punishment for voluntarily causing hurt).