Bajwa flays Punjab Police for Ludhiana shootout
Friday, 03/10/2014
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Ludhiana/Samrala : The Opposition party of state has left no stone unturned to hit out at the state government on the issue of murder of two brothers by Akali leader and police at Jamalpur.
On Thursday, Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee (PPCC) president Partap Singh Bajwa said Home Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal has converted Punjab Police into a private militia of Akali Dal.
Bajwa demanded a time bound probe by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court into the cold-blooded murder of two Dalit brothers of Jamalpur in Ludhiana district. He said that the inquiry should be handed over to the CBI.
Addressing a press conference at Samrala after expressing sympathy with the bereaved family, Bajwa alleged that the Dalits have been under attack under this regime.
He said that the case should be handed over to a fast track court after investigation and the culprits should be given exemplary punishment.
He maintained that the Punjab Police at one time was associated with bravery and valour, but now it was a jungle raj in the state as this once proud force was being dictated by the Akali jathedars.
Rejecting the suspension of the Khanna SSP, Bajwa said that this was no punishment as it was the Home Minister who should be suspended.
He asserted that under the Badal government, suspension had rather become a qualification for the police officials to prove their loyalty and then get prized postings after re-instatement. The situation had become so alarming that the state police was functioning as a private army of the SAD-BJP leaders.
The PPCC chief alleged that the SAD-BJP-Punjab Police nexus was functioning like a mafia controlling sand mining, drug smuggling and taking over properties, especially of the NRIs, forcibly.
Challenging the police version of murder of two brothers in an encounter, he asserted that the home guards were not allotted AK-47, the weapon that had been used in this crime. He said that the police had been used by the local Akali leader as part of the vendetta politics.
He said the Sikh religion advocated protection of poor and weak, and such killings were against the basic tenets of Sikhism, while Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal claimed himself to be a Panthic leader having been bestowed the honour of ‘Fakhar-e-Qaum’.
He also demanded all-encompassing probe into the assets of all station house officers after the Badal government took over in 2007 with the details being put online.
