SAD seeks CBI inquiry into false cases against party workers

CHANDIGARH: Alleging that the Congress government in the state was “punishing” people who had voted against the party in the assembly polls by registering criminal cases with non-bailable Sections against them, the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) on Wednesday‘paraded’somesuch victims before the media.

“Many false have come to the notice of SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal during his ‘Jabar Virdohi Lehar’ visit to Gurdaspur parliamentary constituency recently,” said SAD leader Bikram Singh Majithia, claiming that 58 cases of non-bailable offences had been registered against SAD workers.

“We will move court, seeking that the cases be handed over to the CBI,” he said, alleging that the Punjab Police was playing a partisan role.

“There is the law of the jungle in the state,” added SAD leader Daljit Singh Cheema, while releasing a list of the allegedly false cases registered since the new government took over.

Majithia said in Tarn Taran, local MLA Ramanjit Singh Sikki had forcibly taken possession of 16 canals belonging to an army jawan with the help of goons from the Congress.

He said kin of the freedom fighters were not spared quoting incident of Madhir village in Muktsar referring to a case of torture of an Akali worker in the police lock-up, allegedly at the behest of Congress legislator Amarinder Singh Raja Warring.

Former minister Sucha Singh Langah saidit was shameful that Dera Baba Nanak MLA Sukhi Randhawawasdemandingproof of atrocities. HTC