Protesters snatched tear fuel handgun, ammunition; tried to kill policemen, says Chandigarh Police FIR
Chandigarh, February 9
Protesters allegedly snatched a teargas handgun, its ammunition and tried to kill policemen amid elevating of pro-Khalistan slogans throughout a violent conflict with the Chandigarh Police, based on an FIR.
The Chandigarh Police lodged the FIR on Wednesday late night time in reference to the conflict by which round 30 policemen, together with the Speedy Motion Power personnel, have been injured whereas a number of police automobiles have been broken.
The incident occurred on Wednesday at Sector 52-53 on the Chandigarh-Mohali border when protesters tried to power their strategy to attain Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann’s official residence right here.
Police have named seven individuals, related to the Qaumi Insaaf Morcha that’s spearheading the protest, within the FIR, and plenty of unidentified individuals have been booked beneath 17 sections together with 307 (try to homicide) of the Indian Penal Code, the Arms Act and the Prevention of Injury to Public Property Act, based on the Chandigarh Police First Info Report.
The protesters looking for the discharge of Sikh prisoners on Wednesday had attacked police personnel and broken a water cannon automobile, a “vajra” (riot-control automobile), two police jeeps, a fire-fighting automobile and another automobiles with swords and sticks.
The FIR stated the protestors intentionally broken police automobiles and different police tools.
It stated amid the elevating of pro-Khalistan slogans, some protestors on tractors and horses attacked policemen with sticks, swords and spears with the intention to kill them.
A number of police personnel who sustained accidents ran to avoid wasting their lives, based on the FIR.
Had they (policemen) not saved their lives by working away, the protestors would have killed them, it added.
As per the FIR, a tear fuel handgun, ammunition from the ‘vajra’ automobile and a number of other tools mendacity within the automobiles of Speedy Motion Power have been taken away by the protestors, whereas round 20 police barricades have been broken.
The FIR has been lodged on the grievance of Inspector Davinder Singh, the station home officer of Sector 34 police station.
Amongst those that have been booked included Gurcharan Singh, Balwinder Singh, Amar Singh Chahal, Dilsher Singh Jandiala, all related to the Qaumi Insaaf Morcha.
The Chandigarh Police has additionally launched the CCTV footage of the incident, by which a number of protestors, carrying swords and sticks, might be seen attacking police automobiles.
On Monday and Tuesday, the protestors had tried to maneuver in direction of Chandigarh however have been detained by police.
Nihangs (Sikhs armed with conventional weapons), members of a number of Sikh our bodies and others participated within the march.
The protesters have been looking for the discharge of Sikh prisoners, together with Balwant Singh Rajoana, a convict in former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh’s assassination, and Devinderpal Singh Bhullar, a 1993 Delhi bomb blast convict.
They’re additionally looking for “justice” within the 2015 sacrilege and police-firing incidents in Faridkot.