SC commission tells SSP to form SIT

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 27

Vice-Chairman of the National SC Commission Dr Raj Kumar Verka today asked SSP Snehdeep Sharma to form an SIT to probe the incident of police lathicharge on SC students at Nawanshahr and file a report in seven days.

Verka also asked Nawanshahr Deputy Commissioner Ravinder Singh to find out how and why the colleges had been collecting advance fee from SC students despite clear guidelines that nothing should be charged from them.

“When the colleges have been paid all dues for 2014-15 admissions under the Centre’s Post-Matric Scholarship Scheme, why are they not reimbursing the fee to the students that had been wrongfully collected from them?” Verka said.

Verka asked the DC to file a report to him in a week and get the college administration booked under the SC and the ST (Prevention of Atrocities) Act, if needed.

Before proceeding to Nawanshahr, Verka was in Jalandhar where he met the family of education service provider Rajni who suffered miscarriage following her illegal detention by the police ahead of PM Narendra Modi’s rally.

He asked Jalandhar DCP to register an FIR against the suspended Sub-Inspector for keeping the expecting woman in illegal detention. He also directed the DC to get a medical board constituted in the case and file a report in three days.

He said the SIT formed by the Jalandhar police must have a woman cop or a woman PCS officer.

Jalandhar MP Santokh Singh Chaudhary and Punjab Youth Congress chief Vikramjit Singh Chaudhary have demanded immediate suspension of those involved in the barbaric action on the students seeking reimbursement of their dues.

Santokh Singh said he would raise the issue in Parliament and make sure that the institutions where government guidelines on scholarships to SC/OBC students were violated were shut down.

Punjab Pradesh Congress Committee spokesperson Nimisha Mehta has demanded the suspension of Nawanshahr Deputy Commission Ravinder Singh and SSP Snehdeep Sharma.

Mehta said it was shameful on part of the district administration and the police to use force against students protesting peacefully for their right to get scholarship.

Phagwara: A delegation of the Bahujan Samaj Party, led by its former state general secretary Jarnail Nangal, met Phagwara SDM Keshav Hingonia on Friday and submitted a memorandum to be forward to the Governor, seeking early action against the guilty policemen.