CHANDIGARH (PTI): The president of Amritsar city Akali Dal (Kabul) two police constables were killed in separate incidents in the northern Indian state of Punjab since Oct.22.
The president of the Amritsar city unit of the Akali Dal (Kabul) Prem Singh Gargaj was shot at by a Special Police Officer (SPO) deployed at his residence in Sharifpura locality mistaking Gargaj to be a militant.
A report from Amritsar quoting the SSP Amritsar Hardeep Dhillon said the incident occurred after a fight started over some dispute regarding payments between Gargaj and another person identified as Waryam Singh
In the scuffle Waryam Singh inflicted multiple stab injuries on Gargaj with his “Kirpan” and as he tried to flee the SPO shot him down.
Meanwhile as the panic-stricken Gargaj rushed to the roof-top the SPO mistook him to be a militant and shot at him as well.
The SPO has since been taken into the custody for questioning. The Amritsar SSP did not rule out the possibility of Waryam Singh being a militant.
In another incident a Punjab police constable Jit Singh and another person Palli a close associate of the Phagwara municipal commissioner were killed while attempting to secure the release of the two and a half-year-old nephew of the commissioner who had been kidnapped by the suspected gunmen from Phagwara on Oct.19.
A report from Jalandhar said some guards and relatives of the commissioner Jaidev Sudhir after being informed reached a house in the fields of village Munna in Jalandhar district.
As Jit Singh and Palli knocked at the door they were fired upon. They were immediately shifted to the civil hospital where they succumbed to their injuries. The gunmen before fleeing managed to drag one Dr.Satish Kumar also.
A Punjab police constable Paramjit Singh who had been deputed as a guard for a newspaper agent Ramesh Kumar Tangri was killed and a passerby injured when the two were fired upon near Kharpar bus stand in Ropar district on the outskirts of Chandigarh early Oct.22.
Tangri and his gunmen had gone to the bus stand to collect news Papers when the militants struck.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 6, 1992
