15 Satkar Committee members booked

Nikhil Bhardwaj

Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, April 23

In a shocking incident of thrashing of three granthis allegedly by the members of Satkar Committee, the Kapurthala police had slapped an attempt to murder, kidnapping and other charges on 15 persons.

A case under Sections 307, 382, 365, 342, 295 A, 406, 148, 149 of the IPC was registered against head of Satkar Committee, Lohian Khas, Sukhjit Singh Khosa, Tarlochan, Gurbhej Singh and 12 others at THE Talwandi Chaudharia police station in Kapurthala One of the accused Karamjit Singh of Swaal village near Sultanpur Lodhi, was arrested today. DSP of Sultanpur Lodhi Davinder Singh said raids were being conducted to nab the remaining accused.

The DSP said since the video also went viral on internet, the police was inquiring if the IT Act should be slapped on the accused or not. Victim granthis Mahinder Singh of Dalowal village, Gurmail Singh and Gurnam Singh, residents of Khwaspur village in Taran Taran, told the police that on March 27, they had gone to conduct akhand path at some religious place in Sidhupur village near Shahkot. “On March 29, when we were returning home, three persons kidnapped and took us to an isolated place in Pamna village near Sultanpur Lodhi. We were brutally beaten up by over 12 persons with bats on the plea that akhand path cannot be conducted at ancestral place,” said the granthis to the police adding that they belonged to Satkar Committee. Apart from beating them up, they also videographed the entire thrashing episode and later uploaded it in the Facebook and other social networking sites, alleged the victims.