Suspended DSP booked for comparing Patti MLA with Mughal governor

TARNTARAN: A suspended deputy superintendent of police (DSP) was booked in Tarn Taran for comparing Congress’ Patti MLA Harminder Singh Gill with Mughal governor of Lahore Zakariya Khan Bahadur, known for the persecution of Sikhs, in a post on social media site Facebook.

Non-bailable charges were pressed against DSP Balwinder Singh Sekhon, who was suspended in December last year by the Punjab government for allegedly sending abusive and derogatory messages to state food and civil supplies minister Bharat Bhushan Ashu when he was posted in Ludhiana. An inquiry was marked against him.

The case was registered against him on Sunday under Section 153-A (promoting enmity between different groups) of the Indian Penal Code and Section 66 of the Information Technology Act at the Patti city police station on the complaint of the MLA’s close aide Raj Karan Singh.

In the first week of May, the Congress MLA had sparked a row as an audio of him demanding ‘courtesy call’ from Harike SHO Navdeep Singh had surfaced.

The FB post, which was uploaded on Wednesday, reads, “…the station house officer (SHO) who made MLA Harminder Singh Gill’s threatening audio clip viral has been transferred..It is shameful for the police department. Such officers are obeying the dogs for saving their position”. The post also carries abusive and derogatory remarks and had pictures of Gill and the SHO.