By IANS,
Shimla : The Congress Wednesday suspended a legislator in Himachal Pradesh who has been booked for murder by the Haryana Police.
“The party has suspended Ram Kumar Chaudhary,” state Congress president Sukhvinder Singh Sukhu told reporters here.
He is one of four suspects in the murder of a 24-year-old woman in Panchkula in Haryana Nov 22 and is now on police remand till Jan 18.
After evading arrest, Chaudhary, who was also the party’s general secretary in the state, had surrendered before a Panchkula court Jan 8.
Police said that before murdering the woman, he got her foetus aborted in a nursing home.
Chaudhary is a first-time legislator from Doon in Solan district. He is the son of four-time Congress legislator Lajja Ram.
“This is my first decision after assuming charge,” Sukhu said. He took over as the state party president Tuesday.
“There will be zero tolerance for criminal activities, crimes against women and corruption,” Sukhu added.