BADAL’S CAR ATTACKED

4 injured in Cong-SAD clash in Punjab’s Jalalabad

CHANDIGARH: SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal’s car was damaged and 4 persons were injured on Tuesday in a clash between Congress and Akali workers during filing of nomination papers for Jalalabad municipal polls in Fazilka district, officials said.

Badal, however, escaped unhurt in the violence, they said.

Akali Dal Chief and Ferozepur MP Badal and his supporters reached Jalalabad administrative complex to file nomination forms of their party nominees for the municipal polls. In the meantime, Congressmen accompanied by Jalalabad party MLA Raminder Awla's son also reached there to file nomination papers of their party men,

SAD workers claimed.

The two groups got engaged in a verbal spat and the Congressmen later 'gheroed' Badal's vehicle to oppose him, triggering a violent clash during which the two groups pelted stones at each other, police said, adding some gunshots too were fired but it was yet to be ascertained who fired them.

The two groups also attacked each other with sticks, police said, adding several vehicles, including Sukhbir's car, were damaged.

Videos of stone-pelting on Sukhbir's car went viral on social media.

Police lathi-charged the mob to disperse it. 70 missing persons found in Delhi jails: Capt Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh said that a total of 89 persons from Punjab were reported missing since the R-Day violence. Of them, 70 were found in Delhi jails, 14 were traced at other places and 5 were still missing, he said.