Days after an Akali Dal general secretary allegedly killed a police
officer in Amritsar city, a villager was kidnapped and hacked to death
in Amritsar district, allegedly by a local leader of the party. Amarjit
Singh, Akali supporter and sarpanch of Nangal village, the main accused
in the crime, is on the run.
The local Congress MLA, Harpartap Singh Ajnala, said Amarjit is the
general secretary of the block unit of the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD).
The SAD — which is already under pressure following the Amritsar
policemen’s death — has denied that Amarjit holds a post in the party or
is even a member.
On Saturday night, Amarjit, along with 10 others, attacked the
farmhouse of one Gurpreet Singh Gopi in the outskirts of the village. He
was dragged out of his bed and taken to Amarjit’s house, where the men
set upon him with a spear, said a police officer.
Thereafter, the sarpanch summoned policemen from the Ajnala police
station and told them that he had beaten up Gopi as he had scaled the
boundary wall and trespassed into his house, Harpratap said.
The man was admitted to the civil hospital in Ajnala with multiple
injuries and was later referred to a hospital in Amritsar. But on Monday
morning, he died at a private nursing home in the city. Officers of the
local police said it was a matter of personal enmity.
“A case has been registered against Amarjit and 10 others at the
Ajnala police station. But all the men named in the FIR are absconding,”
said PS Virk, senior superintendent of police, Amritsar (rural).
Condemning the incident, Harpartap, who is also the district Congress
committee chief of Amritsar, said this was yet another instance of the
power Akali goons wield. Pointing out how the police had failed to take
Amarjit into custody on the spot, he demanded a detailed inquiry into
the case.
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