CHANDIGARH: Sumedh Singh Sain SSP said that the police had got definite lute that the bomb blast in Sector 17, in which he was injured, was the handiwork of the Khalistan Liberation Force (KLF).
In an informal chat with newsmen the SSP said the police was making efforts to solve the case.
Saini asserted that the Ropar police chef, Mohd Mustafa, had not writ in any leer concerning him to D.S. Mangat DGP, Punjab, and Mustafa had himself denied writing any such letter, he said.
Describing Mustafa as “brother police officer” with whom he had the best of relations, Saini maintained that the Chandigarh police was getting full coop ration from its counterpart in Ropar.
Saini accused “certain mischievous elements” of trying to drive a wedge between him and Mustafa by “planting” false stories. The SSP refuted the charge that the Chandigarh police had a hand in killing the family of the slain militant leader, Balwinder Singh Jattana. This fact, he claimed, is fully known both to the Punjab police and militants.
Jattana’s family was burnt alive in their village on the same day when Saini was injured in a bomb blast in Sector 17. Three police personnel were killed in the blast and several injured.
Saini said his own hospitalization a the GI, where he was operated upon after the blast, and the preoccupation of the police force in the post blast arrangements, including the cremation of those killed and arranging blood for these seriously injured, provided “irrefutable evidence” of the impossibility of the local police being in evolved in the killing of the Jtiana family.
The police was fighting against the militants only because of their killing innocent persons. How then, asked Saini, could the police itself resort to killing of innocent members of the Jattana family?
As for the areas of D.S.Dhillon Editor of Blast, a weekly from Chandigarh, Saini said the SP City), Sudhir Mohan, person ally had interrogated him and Dhillon had confessed that he had been keeping unlicensed firearms for quite some time,
Saini denied that Dhillon had any links with milldams, after the revolver and alien gun, two magazines and 25 life car tridges, the police was let with no option but to register a case against Dhillon under TADA, he said.
Meanwhile, a number of journalists have condemned the arrest of Dhillon. They demanded his immediate release and the cancellation of the FIR registered against him, the journalists also demanded an administrative inquiry into the arrest.
Article extracted from this publication >> November 1, 1991
