Tak­ing full ad­van­tage of the op­por­tu­nity that arose out of the bomb blast at vil­lage Adil­wal in Am­rit­sar, the Pun­jab po­lice in the dis­tricts of Am­rit­sar and Batala has started ques­tion­ing the ac­tivists of Dal Khalsa, the Guru Granth Sahib Satkar Jatha, the the Sikh Youth of Pun­jab and Jatha Sir­lath. Most of those de­tained have been re­leased but one af­ter the other, the se­ries of sum­mon­ing and en­quiries goes on. 

Gur­jant Singh of Dal Khalsa, Prof. Paramjit Singh Mand of the Sikh Youth of Pun­jab, Ran­jit Singh and Daljit Singh Bobby of Sikh Youth Fed­er­a­tion Bhin­dran­wale and Bhupin­der Singh Him­mat-e-Khalsa were de­tained yes­ter­day and let off late in the evening. To­day Gurinder Jeet Singh of Dal Khalsa was in­ter­ro­gated and re­leased in the evening. These are age-old tac­tics of the Pun­jab po­lice and they do not seem to have learnt or un­learnt any­thing in the last few decades while deal­ing with the Pun­jab prob­lem.

Dal Khalsa spokesper­son Kan­warpal Singh in a sharp re­ac­tion to the de­ten­tions has said that, “that un­due ha­rass­ment to the youth group of the Dal Khalsa con­tin­ued to­day for the sec­ond con­sec­u­tive day.”

“It is not only sur­pris­ing but shock­ing that as has been clar­i­fied by all of those were de­tained and re­leased that no ques­tion was asked about the Am­rit­sar bomb blast.” said Kan­warpal Singh.

All those de­tained were ques­tioned about their per­sonal and pro­fes­sional lives and their mo­bile phones were scanned for calls made and re­ceived. In the case of Gurinder Jeet Singh, his phone has been re­tained by the po­lice au­thor­i­ties in Am­rit­sar. There seems to be a lot of un­due pres­sure by the Na­tional In­ves­ti­ga­tion Agency on the Pun­jab po­lice go­ing by the man­ner in which the ar­rests are be­ing con­ducted.

“It is re­ally up­set­ting that these de­ten­tions are meant to cre­ate a fear psy­chosis in the minds of the fam­i­lies of those de­tained and an at­tempt to over­awe them to stay away from their po­lit­i­cal ac­tiv­i­ties.” said the party spokesper­son.

“No amount of veiled threats will de­ter us from con­tin­u­ing our mis­sion for up­hold­ing the flag of Sikh rights for the Khalsa Panth re­it­er­ated.”  Kan­warpal Singh.

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Am­rit­sar, 21 No­vem­ber 2018, WSN News Desk