‘Law and order situation has stooped to a new low in state’

JALANDHAR: Expressing concern over the steep increase in the crime rate in Punjab, Jalandhar MP Choudhary Santokh Singh today said that the law and order situation has now stooped to a new low in the state and people have lost faith in the state government as far as sense of security was concerned.

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, August 8

Expressing concern over the steep increase in the crime rate in Punjab, Jalandhar MP Choudhary Santokh Singh today said that the law and order situation has now stooped to a new low in the state and people have lost faith in the state government as far as sense of security was concerned.

Citing recent cases of murders—Mata Chand Kaur of Namdhari Sect in Ludhiana, Industrialist Anil Kumar Billa and RSS leader Jagdish Gagneja—Chaudhary said that it seems the law and order situation was heading towards worse than the hay days of terrorism. It has become more serious as the Punjab Police has failed to solve not even one of these cases.

He said that he would strongly rake up this issue in Parliament. While training his guns for saffron party, Chaudhary said: “BJP is waiting for what? If they would have reacted strongly against the deteriorated law and order on time, firing incident on Gagneja could have been avoided.”

Posing a query towards Akalis, Chaudhary said “Badal Saab, where are the culprits behind the repeated incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib? What is the outcome of CBI probe into the Bargadi’s sacrilege incident and the police firing in which two innocent youth lost their lives?”

Meanwhile, Jagmeet Singh Brar, former Congress leader, also condemned the attack on senior RSS leader Brig. Jagdish Gagneja. He said, “This act is the part of a greater plan of communal forces to destabilise Punjab before the elections. It is in the same pattern as attacks on preachers like Sant Dhandrianwale and repeated desecration incidents of Sri Guru Granth Saheb.”