Farmers Movement Archive

Special team to nab sacrilege accused

Faridkot, October 17About three weeks after registering a criminal case against three absconding members of Dera Sacha Sauda, who are alleged to be the prime accused in the sacrilege cases, the state police has constituted a special team today to arrest them.Need unbiased probe into Singhu case: Akal TakhtOfficiating Jathedar of Akal Takht Giani Harpreet Singh demanded a thorough probe from an independent agency into the killing of Lakhbir Singh at the Singhu border on October 15Concerned about the image of Sikhs globally, he said it was an outcome of emotional and religious sentiments that must be dealt with sensitivity. “All aspects should be thoroughly probed,” he saidThe special team will be headed by DIG, Ludhiana, Gurpreet Singh Bhullar. The team has been tasked with the job of arresting these accused so that to take the sacrilege cases to a logical conclusion in the run up to the forthcoming assembly elections.Las month, the Faridkot police had registered a criminal case against the dera followers, Harish Dhuri, Pardeep Kaler and Sandeep Bareta, under Section 174-A of IPC as they were not appearing before the court in three sacrilege cases of 2015.As per the investigation by the special investigation team (SIT), probing the three sacrilege incidents, the accused along with dera head Gurmeet Ram Rahim were allegedly the part of conspiracy in the theft of the ‘bir’, making sacrilege which led to Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura police firing incidents.For the last about one year, the SIT claimed to have conducted searches in Punjab, Haryana and Rajasthan to nab the accused but failed.

The Tribune

2021-10-18