Farmers Movement Archive

Suspects identified, but cops tight-lipped

Tribune News ServiceAmritsar, August 14Days after the recovery of a tiffin bomb, hand grenades and RDX from a border village, the Amritsar (rural) police have reportedly identified several suspects who were to retrieve the explosives from near the International Border.Though the police officials were tight-lipped over the development, cops have rounded up some persons in this connection.Amritsar (rural) Senior Superintendent of Police Gulneet Singh Khuranna said the investigation was still under way and nothing was there to be shared at this moment.Following the seizure of Improvised Explosive Device (IED), around 2-kg RDX and five hand grenades, cops had been probing to identify the forward links of Pakistan- based anti-national elements that sneaked the explosives with the help of drones.The police have got specific input regarding movement of drone near Bachiwind village a week ago. Later, the search operation led to the recovery of explosives from Daleke-Beharwal village, which is situated around 3 km from Bachiwind. The police suspected that someone retrieved the same from Bachwind and later dumped it at the spot. The police have been investigating into the intended target of the explosive material as seizure around the Independence Day has raised security concern. CM Capt Amarinder Singh will hoist the national flag in the city on Sunday.Farmers to protest todayAmritsar: The farmers holding a protest against the three controversial farm laws have decided to burn an effigy of system and protest against ‘incomplete’ independence tomorrow. The farmer leaders claimed that a motorcycle rally from the Attari-Wagha border to Beas would be conducted. Sarwan Singh Pandher, general secretary, Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, stated that an effigy of the corrupt regime would be burnt at the Golden Gate on the occasion. Gurbachan Singh Chabba, Punjab State office secretary of the Kisan Mazdoor Sangharsh Committee, said the ruling government of the country was celebrating the 75th Independence Day on August 15, but it was incomplete independence. After 1947, the working class of the country and the peasantry were still struggling for complete independence. The district headquarters and organisations, including Jalandhar, Hoshiarpur, Kapurthala and Fazilka, will also hold massive rallies to burn effigies of the corrupt government and hold a road march to demand complete independence. While the country’s hard working peasants have been struggling on the roads of Delhi for eight consecutive months, where nearly 600 people have been martyred, the Union Government is adamant on giving the country’s public and economic resources to corporate houses, said Chabba.“Ghadri Babye and other martyrs had dreamed of an independent India, but it did not come true. Even today the black laws of the British are imposed on the people of the country. The loot of the working class of the country is still going on. A huge convoy of thousands of motorbikes marched on the roads to tell the government that we are not satisfied with incomplete independence,” said Pandher..

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2021-08-15