All Punjab parties demand action against guilty

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All Punjab parties demand action against guilty

Tuesday, 18 June 2019 | PNS | Chandigarh

A day after a Sikh auto driver and his son were brutally thrashed by Delhi Police personnel after their vehicle allegedly bumped into the police van in New Delhi’s Mukherjee Nagar area, the issue was heard loud and clear some 250 kms away by all major political players in Punjab, cutting across party lines demanding strict action in the matter.

Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday sought the Union Home Minister Amit Shah’s intervention in the matter, while the SAD has demanded dismissal of the cops responsible for “brutal” attack.

Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), which is running the government in Delhi and is main opposition party in Punjab, has sought judicial probe into the incident.

Hitting out at the Delhi Police for the alleged assault on a man at Mukherjee Nagar in the national capital, Capt Amaridner tweeted, “Shameful incident of @DelhiPolice ruthlessly beating up Sarabjeet Singh and Balwant Singh over a petty issue. Request HM @Amit Shah to ensure justice.”

SAD president Sukhbir Badal also urged the Union Home Minister Amit Shah to take strict action against the police personnel responsible for brutal attack by dismissing them from service and registering an attempt to murder case against them.

“Delhi police personnel behaved like animals yesterday by brutalizing an old Sikh man and his son in front of the Mukherjee Nagar police station. The old man was beaten up and dragged on the streets despite pleas of his son to defuse the situation. Later the son was also attacked and beaten up mercilessly,” he said.

Urging the Home Minister to award exemplary punishment to the cops involved in this dastardly act, Sukhbir said that this was necessary to send the right message to society that atrocities by men in uniform would not be tolerated under any circumstances.

Besides urging for immediate dismissal for all the police personnel involved in the incident, he also urged the Home Minister to register an attempt to murder case against the cops.

Severely criticizing the Delhi police’s “dastardly”, party’s senior leaders and MLAs Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Prof Baljinder Kaur, Kulwant Singh Pandori, Jai Kishan Rori and Manjit Singh Bilaspur, sought dismissal of the police officials behind this dastardly act.

They demanded that the Modi-led government at the Centre should show a little sensitivity towards the minority communities across the country and protect their religious identities and sentiments to send out a clear message that those behind such acts against minority communities won’t be spared no matter how high and mighty they were.

AAP leaders have also demanded a judicial probe into the barbarous act of beating and pulling hair of the auto driver and his son and their turbans in the public, which they said, was a case of highhandedness on the part of Delhi police, which had been reduced to a mere ‘jungle raj’ during the tenure of the saffron party and its NDA partners ruling the country.

Expressing their grave concern over the apathetic stance of the government toward the minority communities, AAP legislators said that if the Sikhs and others in minority across the country were not safe to protect their religious identities and sentiments in their own country, how the government would be able to protect the communities in other countries of the world. Modi government should immediately intervene in the matter and secure justice for the victims as police dispensation was directly under the control of BJP-SAD alliance government lorded over by Union Home Minister Amit Shah instead of the Delhi government led by Kejriwal, they said.

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