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Amritsar, A day after high drama at the police-public meeting presided over by the ADGP (law and order) yesterday, former Cabinet Minister Bikram Singh Majithia today threatened to launch an agitation if police officials failed to arrest the suspects involved in allegedly torturing Dalit Kashmir Singh and his family members. He also sought action against the policemen who were allegedly shielding the accused.
During a meeting of party leaders and workers at a private resort here today, he blamed senior Congress leader Sukhjinder Singh Lalli Majithia for “sheltering and patronising gangsters and anti-social elements” which was refuted by the latter.
He said he would approach every platform available in the democratic system to provide justice to the “victims of “police atrocities and Congress leaders”.
He emphasised that he had not gone uninvited to meet the ADGP. “I went to present the case of Kashmir Singh, who was illegally detained by the police and tortured at the behest of a Congress leader and close aide of Lalli Majithia,” he said.
High drama was witnessed yesterday when residents of the Majitha constituency boycotted the police-public meeting as soon as Bikram Majithia entered the venue.
He said on one hand Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh was claiming to have ended the halqa incharge system, on the other his “halqa incharges” have unleashed a political vendetta. He claimed that among those present during the meeting included a murder convict out on parole, attempt to murder accused and other anti-social elements. He said he was not forced to leave, but he himself came out after meeting the ADGP.
Majithia said Dalit leaders of the party would meet tomorrow after which they would meet the DGP, Punjab Police, and move the Punjab State Human Rights Commission and even the courts if need be.
