Martyred soldier’s father pained at smearing of signboard

Nikhil Bhardwaj

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Tribune News Service

Jalandhar, March 3

An elderly man has sought “self-willed death” as the district administration and the police department “do not want to act” against the miscreants who have smeared the signboard of his son, late Lieutenant Gurbinder Singh, outside Shaheed Gurbinder Singh Colony here.

Ajit Singh, father of martyr Lieutenant Gurbinder Singh, today met Police Commissioner Yurinder Singh Hayer to seek action against the miscreants.

Ajit Singh, a resident of Baba Budha Nagar in Rama Mandi, said his 23-year-old son laid down his life for the country on December 10, 2001, in Poonch, Jammu and Kashmir.

Giving respect to the martyrdom of Lieutenant Gurbinder Singh, the Municipal Corporation (MC), Jalandhar, on July 29, 2005, named a colony Shaheed Lieutenant Gurbinder Singh Colony here and a signboard was also put up outside the colony.

Later, the colony’s name was got changed to British Town by some persons at the MC House meeting.

Ajit Singh said a few months later, he filed a complaint with the MC regarding this and a five-member committee was constituted which ordered to change the name British Town to Shaheed Lieutenant Gurbinder Singh Colony.

On Thursday, the Electronic Media Association (EMA) president, Nikhil Sharma, along with the martyr’s father Ajit Singh, met the Police Commissioner and demanded the registration of an FIR against the miscreants who blackened the martyr’s signboard.

ADCP 1, J Elanchezhian, along with the MC and district administration officials, also visited the spot where the signboard was defaced.