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KOTLI SURAT MALHI (GURDASPUR), October 12: Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee president Capt Amarinder Singh today stormed into the local police station here and served an ultimatum to the erring SHO Manjeet Singh to stop the persecution of Congress workers.
“Let me warn all such police officials that I will use the special powers vested in the government under Article 311 to dismiss all of them in case they do not mend their ways”, he said, adding that he would initiate stringent action against them once the Congress is in power if they don’t mend their ways.
Talking to reports, he said, “Enough is enough. I won’t let anyone get away with the persecution of my party workers.
Responding to a number of complaints from local party workers, who alleged that the SHO was openly threatening them and asking them to join Akali Dal, the PCC president personally went to the police station to lodge the protest and warn the erring police official.
He was accompanied by the local MLA Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa.
A number of party workers who had gathered at the police station told Capt Amarinder that the SHO and the local DSP had let lose a reign of terror on the Congress workers. Besides, they alleged that the police officials there were patronising drug trade also.
One of the party workers confronted the SP in charge of the police station, with evidence that the SHO had asked him to join Akali Dal. He said when he refused, he was slapped with a false case.
The SHO and the DSP were not present in the police station when the former Chief Minister visited there.
The workers said the area was the worst hit by false cases registered at the instance of the Akali leaders.
Capt Amarinder said he will use the special powers vested with the government to dismiss all such cops. “I did it in 2002 and I will do it again in case the cops do not mend their ways”, he warned in unambiguous terms.
The PCC president also spoke to one of the senior police officers on phone and conveyed his strong displeasure over the way the SHOs, the local SHO in particular, had been treating the Congress workers.
He said the police officials will act partisan at their own risk, reminding them it was a matter of only four more months when Congress will be in power and they will have to account for all their sins of omission and commission.
