SENA LEADERS FAKED THREATS FOR SECURITY
LUDHIANA: Police on Wednesday arrested Shiv Sena( Hi nd) leaders Ro hit Sawhney and San chit Malhotra along with their four accomplices for cooking up stories of threat from Khalistani elements to seek more security.
The police also claimed that the accused were hatching a conspiracy to create ari ft between Hindus and Sikhs using social networking sites.
While Sawhney is the national general secretary of the outfit, Sanchit is his brother-in-law and district president of the outfit. Maninder Singh alias Goldy of Me ha rb an village, Pr em S ag ar of Baldev Nagar and Gurpreet Sing ha li as Sonu of Golden Avenue Colony are the other accused. One of their accomplices Baljit Singh is on the run.
San chit had shown fake threat messages to the police to get more security for himself and his brother-in-law, said Ludhiana police commissioner R ND hoke.
“On August 12, San ch it lodged a complaint stating that he and Rohit were receiving threats from Sikh radicals. They claimed that two suspects had thrown pamphlets at the house-cum-office of Sanchit in Sardar Nagar.The CCTV footage of the incident was also submitted to police,” said Dhoke.
On September 27, San ch it told police that he had received amessage on his WhatsApp from an unknown number wherein radicals had threatened to kill him and Rohit within 10 days. Thereafter, police provided temporary security cover to Sanchit while Sawhney already had gunmen since 2015.
D hoke said he asked additional deputy commissioner of police (ADCP, city 1) Ratan Singh Brar to look into the case. When police started tracing the mobile phone number from which San chit was receiving threats, the conspiracy came to the fore.
“First San ch it, R oh it and their friend Balje et Singh got the threat pamphlets printed. Then Prem Sagar and Goldy wore turbans, covered their faces and threw the pamphlets outside Sanchit’s house. Sanchit also gave money to Goldy to purchase a phone and a SIM to send threat messages on his WhatsApp number,” said Dhoke.
“Goldy purchased a phone from a shop in Va rd ham an Na gar for Rs 1,000 and got a SIM card using fake ID proof. Since Goldy is an illiterate, he asked his friend Gurp re et Singh alias So nu to type and send the messages on Sanchit’s number,” he added.
After this, Rohit appointed Goldy as the president of the east constituency of the outfit.
In another complaint, Rohit alleged threats from gangster Jaggu Bhagwa np uri a, who is currently in Amritsar jail. However, so far, these allegations have also not been proved.
A case under sections 420 (cheating), 177 and 182 (false information), 153-A (enmity between groups ),193( false evidence ), and 120 B( criminal conspiracy) of the I PC has been registered against them.