Gagneja’s killers won’t be spared: Rajnath

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, September 27

Targeting Pakistan yet again, Union Home Minister Rajnath Singh today said the hostile neighbour was trying to disrupt peace not only in the border state of Punjab but the entire country.

“Our neighboring country is leaving no stone unturned to disrupt peace in the country, but it has failed to do so,” he said. The Home Minister was in the city to attend the condolence meeting of RSS leader Jagdish Gagneja who was shot by unidentified assailants on August 6.

Rajnath Singh said the culprits involved in the killing of Brigadier Gagneja would not be spared. “On the recommendations of the Punjab Government, we have handed over the case to the CBI and have also directed it to speed up the probe so that the culprits are put behind bars at the earliest,” he said, adding that the attack was aimed at disrupting peace in Punjab.

He said the Union Home Ministry was jointly working on the investigations. He spent some time with the Gagneja family and assured them support.

Paying tribute to the RSS leader, Deputy CM Sukhbir Badal called upon the people to give a strong reply to the anti-national forces who were trying to disturb peace.

Also present on the occasion were Union Minister Vijay Sampla, Cabinet Ministers Ajit Singh Kohar, Madan Mohan Mittal and Bhagat Chunni Lal, MLAs KD Bhandari and Manoranjan Kalia, former state BJP president Kamal Sharma, BJP leader Avinash Rai Khanna, Divisional Commissioner HS Nanda, Deputy Commissioner KK Yadav and Police Commissioner Arpit Shukla.