3986 Photo for representation only. - File photo IN an exemplary service of justice, though coming almost a decade after the incident of assault and rioting near Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh, 15 accused persons have been declared guilty and awarded penalty. The verdict assumes significance and has among the convicts a powerful politician — the MLA from Kalka in Haryana, Pardeep Chaudhary. While when the FIR was registered at the Nalagarh police station in 2011, Chaudhary was an INLD MLA from Kalka, he has since shifted to the Congress, making the move a couple of weeks before being again elected on the party ticket in October 2019. His might in the area is evident from the fact that he wrested the Kalka Assembly seat from the sitting BJP MLA, Latika Sharma.