Capt: Will expose Badals in Nabha, Fazilka jail episodes

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, January 6

Comparing the facilities for criminals at the Fazilka jail with Sukhbir’s Sukhvilas, Punjab Congress president Capt Amarinder Singh today said he would “expose and punish” Badals for the Nabha jailbreak case and the Fazilka sub-jail episode.

He alleged the Fazilka incident, in which 24 people there reportedly conducting a secret meeting with liquor baron and former SAD Abohar halqa incharge Shiv Lal Doda, had exposed that there was a nexus between the Badals and criminals.

Congress leader Sunil Jakhar, who earlier went to submit a memorandum on the issue, to Chief Electoral Officer VK Singh, alleged the government was influencing the probe. The police were trying to “save the culprits by distorting facts and were lying the meeting was held in the superintendent’s office”, he added.

Jakhar said he had requested VK Singh to send a team to ascertain how many people could fit in the superintendent’s office and added he was sure not more than six could be accommodated, while the total number of people caught attending the meeting were more than two dozen.

Questioning the mode of entry of so many people in the jail, the party leaders said they had either forced their entry, amounting to criminal trespass or jail break, or they had bribed their way. “Doda’s name is not in the FIR. I have demanded that the call records of the DC and the DSP be made public to find out how many times Sukhbir had called and intervened since the raid started,” he said.