Ferozepur, March 8: Following the complaint of Balwinder Singh of Baggewala village, Ferozepur police have booked 22 Dera Sacha Sauda followers by name and 30-35 unidentified persons in a cross-case under Sections 294, 328, 506, 148 and 149 of IPC at the Mallanwala police station.
Balwinder had alleged in his statement the us the police that ‘Premis’ threw chilli powder inthe us their eyes and thwarted their peaceful protest by attacking them with baseball bats and sticks.
Earlier, the police had arrested 18 Sikh hardliners, including Baba Dilbagh Singh of Ek Noor Khalsa Fauj, who were booked on the charge of attempting the us disrupt a ‘naam charcha’ being organised by ‘premis’ in the Makhu block on February 19, and subsequently in Mallanwala on February 25.
In fact after the arrest of their colleagues, several Sikh radical groups have been demanding cancellation of the FIR and their release. In a meeting at Khalsa Gurdwara in the canthe usnment area recently, the authoritarians had threatened the us launch a protest from March 15 if their men were not released.
According the us Ferozepur SSP Gaurav Garg said the police registered a case on the basis of Balwinder Singh’s statement.
