Dal Khalsa has claimed that af­ter meet­ing the fam­i­lies of the two ac­cused and vil­lagers, they found glar­ing gaps in the po­lice the­ory of ar­rests in the Am­rit­sar bomb blast case. 

When­ever po­lice, par­tic­u­larly Pun­jab po­lice claims that they have solved a case within a short span of time, the the­ory has to be taken with a pinch of salt or may be more than a pinch. 

Dal Khalsa just did that. Dal Khalsa spokesper­son trav­elled to the homes of the two ac­cused, one of whom was ar­rested yes­ter­day and the other is still at large to sift the chaff from the grain.

The claims of Pun­jab chief min­is­ter Cap­tain Amarinder Singh solv­ing the case of the Ni­rankari Bomb blast in less than 72 hours and the state­ments of fam­i­lies and vil­lagers of the al­leged ac­cused coun­ter­ing and con­test­ing CM’s claims had raised huge doubts which prompted the Dal Khalsa lead­er­ship to visit the fam­i­lies of Bikramjit Singh in vil­lage Dhari­wal and Av­tar Singh in Chak Mishri Khan.

The facts speak for them­selves. While the in­ci­dent hap­pened on Sun­day morn­ing, the po­lice raided the house of the al­leged ac­cused on Mon­day night. Bikramjit Singh was ar­rested on Mon­day night around mid­night and only af­ter il­le­gal de­ten­tion of more than 36 hours was his ar­rest for­mally recorded. At the same time, Av­tar Singh’s house was also raided but as he was not found, his fa­ther was de­tained and he is still un­der il­le­gal de­ten­tion with the po­lice.

Speak­ing to World Sikh News, Kan­warpal Singh said, “If Bikramjit Singh was de­tained on Mon­day night, why was his for­mal ar­rest de­layed till Wednes­day af­ter­noon? When the po­lice ar­rested him, there was a huge con­tin­gent of the po­lice in the mid­night raid, which was ob­vi­ously af­ter the po­lice had some ev­i­dence. If that is so, then “what was the ra­tio­nale for day long de­ten­tion and ha­rass­ment of Sikh youth as­so­ci­ated with the Dal Khalsa and other or­gan­i­sa­tions in Am­rit­sar and Batala on Tues­day? 

Kan­warpal Singh claimed that both the fam­i­lies stood by their ver­sion that Bikramjit Singh was ar­rested on Mon­day night from his house and so was Av­tar’s fa­ther and that their wards were in­no­cent and were not in­volved in any such un­law­ful ac­tiv­ity.

The Dal Khalsa leader who toured the two vil­lages with Dal Khalsa team mem­bers said that SHO Lopoke vis­ited Chak Mishri Khan vil­lage last night, en­tered the house of the cousins of Av­tar Singh and hurled ver­bal abuses at the women in the house. He used deroga­tory lan­guage for Sikhi head­gear the women were wear­ing.

The fam­ily mem­bers of the Bikramjit Singh are re­ported to have met him when he was pro­duced in the Aj­nala courts to­day.

Not to take the de­vel­op­ments ly­ing down in view of the sus­pi­cion raised by the fam­i­lies, Kan­warpal Singh con­firmed that his party would keep a tab  to en­sure that po­lice il­le­gal­i­ties are ex­posed and the Pun­jab po­lice learns to fol­low rule of law.

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Aj­nala, Am­rit­sar, 22 No­vem­ber 2018, WSN News Desk