PATIALA: The Director General of Police (DGP), KPS Gill said that there was no proposal to withdraw the police check posts from the entry points around the Golden Temple complex. However, if the Situation improved in the next six months to a year, the police may decide to do so, he maintained.

This was stated by Gill, when a media person had drawn his attention to a recent resolution of the SGPC offering to own the responsibility of maintaining peace inside the Golden Temple complex in case the police withdraw.

Since 1984, after Operation Blue Star, the police continue to make the five entry points of the Golden Temple complex.

Addressing a press conference here last Week, the DGP told media persons “we do not go by the decision of the SGPC. But we have to decide things on the basis of the prevailing ground situation around the Golden Temple and elsewhere in Punjab. When we feel absolutely confident, the force would be withdrawn,” the DGP asserted.

In reply to a question, Gill said the Khalistan Liberation Forces (KLF) led by its Chief Jamil Singh Chattrana was still active in Punjab.

Punjab. Remnants of the KLF were also active in the border areas Of Punjab, he said. But, he assented there was nothing to worry about as militants were no more attracting fresh recruits and moreover, the rural folk were not supporting militants anymore.

In addition to these factors, flow of weapons from j had been completely blocking claimed Gill.

Gill said that the Pak Inter-S Vices Intelligence (ISI) was still active in India and trying to infiltrate Punjab.

 The DGP in reply to a question Gill said that militants who had takan Singh Jatfarwal, Waddava Singh, Mahal Singh Babbar, Pritam Singh Sekon, Daljit Singh Bittu.

Gill said he had no information that Daljit Singh Bittu after his clash with Sekhon in Pakistan severed his connection militants. A report from Lahore in this connection appeared in the “Indian Times,” published from  Toronto, he said.

Gill added, that if need be wireless sets will be provided to Security members accompanying the buses plying in the night.

Article extracted from this publication >> August 26, 1994