Chandigarh, April 25– Just three days after a petrol bomb attack in Chandigarh’s Ram Darbar, five men targeted a house in Bapu Dham Colony, Sector 26, early Wednesday by hurling flaming bottles into a residential courtyard while the occupants were asleep, police said. No injuries were reported.
The police identified one of the suspects as Golu, a resident of Dadumajra, and registered a case under multiple sections of the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita.
Complainant Pankaj, 21, stated in the FIR that he woke up after hearing noises from a nearby park. On stepping out of his room, he spotted Golu and four unidentified men carrying sticks and glass bottles filled with petrol.
“They threatened to kill me and then threw the bottles into the courtyard,” Pankaj told police. “Flames erupted instantly, and before fleeing, they again issued threats against my family.”
The police concluded the act was a targeted attempt to threaten and harm.
A case has been filed under Sections 190 (unlawful assembly), 191(2) and 191(3) (rioting with weapons and punishment for rioting), 326(G) (mischief by fire), and 351(3) (criminal intimidation) of the BNS.
The attack mirrors another incident from April 20 in Phase 1, Ram Darbar, where a group led by one Sunny allegedly launched a similar assault on the home of Saroj Devi.
That case led to the arrest of 20-year-old Vivek of Sector 26 and three more accused on Wednesday — Shubham (18), Dilshad (19), and Sumit (18).
Saroj Devi, 50, said she heard noises outside her house around 1:25 a.m. and witnessed Sunny and others holding bottles with an unknown liquid.
“They threatened to kill my son, Saurabh, before lighting and throwing the bottles,” she said in her statement.
One of the bottles caused a minor fire at the entrance, which the family quickly doused.
Police are investigating both cases as separate but potentially linked incidents driven by personal enmity.
