jalandhar hoshiarpur police have registered a case against unidentified persons for the attack on state bjp president ashwani sharmas vehicle at a farmers protest site at cholang toll plaza on tuesday eveningthe case has been registered for wrongfully restraining mischief causing damage to the amount of rs 50 or upwards illegal assembly and under a provision of the national highway actwhile bjp leaders in their speeches across the state and on their social media accounts have been claiming that it was an attempt on sharmas life a video of the incident shows that farmers waylaid sharmas vehicle and were raising slogans the rear shield of his vehicle was hit while leaving after his gunmen quickly managed to make way for itsome bjp leaders on their social media accounts had alleged that there was an attempt to set his vehicle on fire but nothing in the cctv footage or the video footage of the incident suggested anything of this sort sources saidpolice sources said it was farmers who blocked sharmas car and it did not appear to be a premeditated attack on the vehicle things seem to have happened at the spur of a moment that too when sharma was leaving it seems that the farmers largely intended to block his vehicle and protest said a police official involved in investigation of the case after watching the cctv footage and the video footage police officials said the video evidence so far before them did not suggest any attempt on sharmas lifewhen asked hoshiarpur ssp navjot singh mahal said that they were investigating the case and refused to comment furtherthe case was registered under sections 341 427 148 149 of the ipc and 8b of the national highway act on the basis of statement of given by sharmas personal security officer meanwhile bjp leaders staged a dharna outside the dc office in jalandhar and claimed that it was an attempt on sharmas life and congress was involved in the attack