Deputy Superintendent of Police Balakrishna Chaubey and his two sons have been accused of beating up and threatening to kill a man in Gandhinagar. Infocity police have filed a complaint under section 115-2, 352, 351 and 54 of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita (BNS) against the three. 

Police have launched an investigation. However, this is not Chaubey’s first brush with being on the wrong side of the law. He was among several officials acquitted in what came to be known as the Sohrabbuddin ‘fake encounter’ case. 

According to the First Incident Report (FIR) filed by a Randesan resident Hemangbhai Ashokbhai Patel, on the evening of September 16, the DySP’s younger son and one of his friends had left the lift open while going up to Chaubey’s home on the fifth floor. When Patel asked the youngsters to close the lift doors, the youngest Chaubey allegedly started a fight. The incident escalated when the boy came down in the same lift, and hurled more abuses at Patel, who was still waiting to use it. 

Soon, Balakrishna Chaubey and his older son also joined the fray, and the assault turned physical, Patel told the police. 

“They (the three Chaubeys) started hitting me with a stick, until my younger brother Ankitbhai intervened. Then they said, ‘You know us. We will implicate you in a wrong case’, and threatened to kill me if I stepped foot in the society again,”  he said.

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