With as­sis­tance from Navi Mum­bai po­lice, the Pun­jab po­lice team camps in Mum­bai to ar­rest ab­scond­ing ac­cused af­ter ob­tain­ing an ar­rest war­rant from a Lud­hi­ana court in the mur­der of Baba Bhupin­der Singh Khasi Kalan who was killed dur­ing the mur­der­ous at­tack on the cav­al­cade of Baba Ran­jit Singh Dhadri­an­wale in May last year. 

After al­most 19 months of the mur­der­ous at­tack on re­li­gious preacher Baba Ran­jit Singh Dhadri­an­wale and his cav­al­cade of cars, while he was on his to vil­lage Is­se­wal in dis­trict Lud­hi­ana to par­tic­i­pate in a Gur­mat Sam­agam, which re­sulted in the mur­der of his as­so­ci­ate Baba Bhupin­der Singh Khasi Kalan, a po­lice team from Lud­hi­ana has launched search op­er­a­tions in Navi Mum­bai. It is re­ported that soon af­ter the mur­der too, po­lice par­ties from Pun­jab have been at­tempt­ing to ar­rest the al­leged con­spir­a­tors in Mum­bai. Soon af­ter the at­tack, me­dia re­ports had men­tioned that the con­spir­acy for the mur­der­ous at­tack was hatched in Mum­bai.

Dhadri­an­wale’s aide Baba Bhupin­der Singh, who was on the front seat of the Toy­ota Land Cruiser Prada had suf­fered a bul­let in­jury and then suc­cumbed to the in­juries be­fore med­ical aid could ar­rive. In the at­tack, Baba Ran­jit Singh Dhadri­an­wale es­caped with mi­nor bruises as he was seated on the rear seat of the car. The car used by the as­sailants -a Tata Sa­fari car (PB 23 J 0015) has al­ready been seized by the Lud­hi­ana po­lice, though fol­low­ers of Baba Dhadhri­an­wale in their pe­ti­tion to the Pun­jab and Haryana High Court had men­tioned that as many as five cars were used by the ac­cused.

“Of the as­sailants, 3 from Mum­bai -Jas­pal Singh Sidhu, Harb­ha­jan Singh Sandhu and Dal­bir Singh -known fol­low­ers of the Damdami Tak­sal are sus­pected to be be­hind the at­tack are ab­scond­ing.”

As per in­for­ma­tion avail­able, on or­ders from a Lud­hi­ana court, in the FIR no. 47/​2016.. IPC 304, 302, 504, 506, 427, 448, 212, 449, 213, 120 B, Con­spir­acy & Arms Act 25 and 27 at Po­lice Sta­tion PAU, Lud­hi­ana, a Pun­jab po­lice team led by DSP Dalip Ku­mar Bedi and Se­nior Po­lice In­spec­tor Jairaj Cha­pariya of Navi Mum­bai Be­la­pur po­lice sta­tion searched for ac­cused Jas­pal Singh Sidhu from Be­la­pur, Harb­ha­jan Singh Sandhu from Mu­lund and Dal­bir Singh from Kharghar, New Mum­bai, but they were not able to de­tain them and as per last re­ports, they are ab­scond­ing. 

The in­ves­tiga­tive agen­cies had said that the on­line face­book war be­tween the two groups led to the at­tack and since then, four­teen sus­pects, in­clud­ing Hardev Singh, a res­i­dent of Udho Nan­gal, near Baba Bakala, Am­rit­sar; Gagan­deep Singh Harnoor and Jaspreet Singh, res­i­dents of Chhad­ran vil­lage, near Katani Kalan of Lud­hi­ana and Man­jeet Singh, a res­i­dent of Mo­halla Dharam­pura have been ar­rested.

Of the many as­sailants, 3 from Mum­bai and fol­low­ers of the Damdami Tak­sal, whose fol­low­ers are sus­pected to be be­hind the at­tack man­aged to give the po­lice party from Lud­hi­ana a slip last week when they reached their homes and places of work. 

In the af­ter­math of the at­tack, Lud­hi­ana po­lice af­ter the ar­rest of the four ac­cused had said that there are as many as 30 con­spir­a­tors and the in­ves­tiga­tive agen­cies are do­ing their work. As men­tioned in the pe­ti­tion filed by Baba Ran­jit Singh Dhadri­an­wale in the Pun­jab and Haryana High Court, which pe­ti­tion has been re­jected, 14 peo­ple have so far been ar­rested by the Pun­jab po­lice. How­ever, Baba Ran­jit Singh has de­manded the ar­rest of all ac­cused as well en­quiry by the CBI in the mat­ter. Sig­nif­i­cantly, the CBI too had said that it does not want to take up the case as its hands are full.

Across the board, all par­ties -Con­gress, Badal Dal and the Pun­jabi unit of Aam Aadmi Party had con­demned the at­tack on Baba Ran­jit Singh Dhadri­an­wale and promised jus­tice in the mat­ter.

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To the cha­grin of the gen­eral Sikh pop­u­la­tion, the ac­ri­mony be­tween the two groups is grow­ing by the day. It is felt that the affin­ity be­tween the Tak­sal and the SGPC re­sulted in the de­nial of per­mis­sion for Dhadhri­an­wale to hold his re­li­gious con­gre­ga­tion in Am­rit­sar last month.