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Pattern continues: Now, 2
arrested and termed Babbar Khalsa
WSN Network
 RUPNAGAR:
In an exercise that has now come to have a set pattern of police
claims becoming staple media news, the Punjab Police working
directly under Sukhbir Singh Badal who holds the Home Department,
has now claimed it has arrested two people who were alleged to be
Babbar Khalsa cadres.
Police claimed
the two were building network and ranks by taking on fresh recruits
to revive militancy in the state, a claim that the police has made
in hundreds of cases in the last few years and which keep falling
apart in courts of law. The prime aim behind such cases often seems
to be harassment of youth.
Harminder Singh
of Cherrian village and Balwinder Singh `Binder' from Dekwala were
arrested and police claimed that a car, a .32 bore revolver, ten
live cartridges and explosive material were seized. The two were
booked under sections 16, 17, 18-B and 20 of Unlawful Activities
(Prevention) Act and sections 25, 54, 59 of Arms Act and sections
3/4/5 of Explosives Act.
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Being
involved in a plot to kill Bhaniara baba seems to be an
allegation that is favorite of police. In tens of cases, it has
been made against people arrested from various parts. For this
duo too, it was thrown in for good measure along side RDX, arms,
dacoity etc. |
Police claimed
that they were working under the guidance of Baljit Singh `Bhau',
presently lodged in Tihar Jail. The main grudge of the police seems
to be that the duo were were working for Bhau's release in court
cases against him.
To add strength
to its claim, the police also claimed that the arrested duo were
part of a plot to kill the controversial Bhaniarewala baba. For good
measure, the cops also threw in an abortive bank dacoity at Nangal.
SSP LK Yadav
claimed Balwinder had sent RDX in the form of sweets (burfi) to
Burail jail in 1997, on the instructions of Jagtar Singh Tara, an
accused in the assassination of late chief minister Beant Singh. An
AK47, a pistol and a large quantity of explosive material were
recovered from him in 1998, Yadav added. Both are in police custody.
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Is getting posters of Sant
printed a crime?
 SAMANA:
Arrested for their alleged involvement in a conspiracy to murder
Dera Sirsa's fraudster head Gurmeet Ram Rahim, Akali Dal
(Amritsar) youh wing leader Bhai Bageecha Singh Waraich, Amarjit
Singh Marori and Gobind Kaur case took a new turn when the
public prosecutor revealed that permission to proceed under
Section 153-A has been sought from the central government but it
has still not been received.
Thus, the
sole witness in the case could not depose. The court of SDJM
Kuldip Singh then fixed the next date of hearing as December 18.
The three, Waraich, Marori and Gobind Kaur were present
alongwith their counsels. Police has also alleged that Bhai
Waraich and his associates had gotten printed posters of Sant
Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale from a printing press of Patiala. The
witness was from the printing press.
Bhai
Bageecha Singh told the media people present in the court that
the Punjab Government was guilty of creating tensions by
allowing the Nam-charchas of Sirsa sadh.
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November 2009
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