Sukhbir Badal meets kin of suicide victim at Lalru

Tribune News Service

Lalru, June 28

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal today announced that the party would intensify its agitation, including gheraoing the Mohali SSP office, in case prompt action was not taken against those who exploited a 32-year-old woman, leading her to commit suicide.

Badal stated this after interacting with the victim’s family here along with Dera Bassi MLA NK Sharma and expressed grief at the tragic incident. He also assured the family members that the SAD would do its utmost to ensure justice to them. He said besides intensifying the public movement to build pressure on the district police to take action in the case, the party would also provide legal aid to the affected family.

“We will even file a writ petition in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, if needed,” he said. The SAD president also spoke to the Mohali SSP and asked him to take prompt action in the case. He said delay in arresting the accused had sent out a message that they were being provided political shelter.

He told the SSP that “this is unacceptable. We cannot compromise on the dignity of our women”. Sukhbir Singh Badal said it was astonishing that the pain and suffering of the victim’s family did not reach the Chief Minister’s office.

MLA NK Sharma said the victim, Kuldeep Kaur, was posted as a clerk in the Technical Education and Training Department. Though a case had been registered against two employees of the department, no arrest had been made so far.

Sharma said the Shiromani Akali Dal would intensify the agitation if the suspects were not arrested soon.