Farmers allege inaction, gherao police station

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, January 8

It took a protest by Shaheed Bhagat Singh Naujwan Sabha and Jamhoori Kisan Sabha for police to register an FIR in connection with the alleged kidnapping and rape of a 15-year-old girl.

The incident took place around a month ago, while the police failed to act even as the family members approached the Kamboh police station a number of times. The victim belonged to a poor family.

Braving rains and severe cold conditions, activists of two organisations held a demonstration outside Kamboh police station and raised slogans against the police authorities for ensuring justice to the common man.

Ratan Singh Randhawa, a senior Jamhoori Kisan Sabha leader, said the accused also thrashed the victim’s family who remained under treatment at PGI. He said that police did not take any action against the suspects though the family pleaded for the same a number of times.

Addressing the activists, he said due to the political interference in the functioning of the police, the common man has to run from pillar to post for getting justice. The cops have turned into puppets in the hands of their political bosses.

When the agitators refused to lift the dharna, Deputy Superintendent of Police Ravinderpal Singh Dhillon reached the spot and assured registration of case against the accused and their subsequent arrest.