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‘No vendetta against Cong activists’

Arniwala (Fazilka), April 11 Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal today said there was no truth in the reports that the SAD-led coalition government was indulging in vendetta against Congress activists and accused the PPCC chief Amarinder Singh of spreading such “concocted” stories.

Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal during his thanksgiving tour to Jalalabad on Wednesday. Tribune photo: Pawan Sharma

Man rescued from illegal police confinement
Bathinda, April 11
A man was rescued from illegal police confinement at Bhagta Bhai Ka post after the intervention of the district and sessions judge SK Aggarwal.

‘No vendetta against Cong activists’
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Arniwala (Fazilka), April 11
Deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal today said there was no truth in the reports that the SAD-led coalition government was indulging in vendetta against Congress activists and accused the PPCC chief Amarinder Singh of spreading such “concocted” stories to divert the attention of people from the revolt against him by the Congress leadership in the state.

Sukhbir said the cases against certain Congress activists were registered in the Rampura Phul police station not during the current regime, but during the assembly elections when the Election Commission was controlling the administration.

Amarinder was trying to paint a picture as if the SAD was fabricating cases against Congress activists in Punjab.

Sukhbir said he does not believe in vendetta politics and was interested in the all-round development of the state that had suffered because of the discrimination during Amarinder’s regime.

Sukhbir said in the next two years, the area would be greatly benefited after the four-laning of three most important roads— Ludhiana-Ferozepur, Bathinda-Chandigarh and Amritsar-Zira — was completed.

He said, “The SAD-BJP Government is fully committed to accelerate the pace of development, as people have approved the development agenda of our government by bringing us back to power.”

Man rescued from illegal police confinement
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Bathinda, April 11
A man was rescued from illegal police confinement at Bhagta Bhai Ka post after the intervention of the district and sessions judge SK Aggarwal.

In his plea moved in the court of the district and sessions judge, Surjit Singh of Kotha Guru village stated that his father Joginder Singh had been illegally detained at the Bhagta Bhai Ka police post, at the behest of some political persons. He stated that a dispute over the sale of a piece of land took an ugly turn and the buyer allegedly connived with the Bhagta Bhai Ka cops, who illegally detained Joginder Singh.

Judge SK Aggarwal directed the additional civil judge, senior division, Phul, GS Dhillon, to pay a surprise visit to the police post to check if any person was locked up there without being produced before the magistrate concerned in contravention of Section 57 of the CrPC and under Article 22 of the Constitution of India.

Consequently, judge Dhillon conducted a raid at about 1:35 pm and found that a police official was taking away an elderly person. When he entered the police station, he saw the same old person sitting under a shed.

The judge inquired about the person’s name and he turned out to be the complainant’s father Joginder Singh. Dhillon said he could not find any entry in the police records regarding Joginder’s confinement.

No case was found pending against the detainee.

Judge GS Dhillon made an entry in the roznamancha (DDR) of the Bhagta Bhai Ka police post regarding his surprise visit. He took Joginder along and dropped him at his village Kotha Guru.