3 cars burned in Amritsar’s Gole Bagh area, anonymous persons claim responsibility
Tribune News Service
Amritsar, May 16
Three cars were allegedly burned in the Gole Bagh area near Durgiana Temple here by some unknown persons in the wee hours on Saturday.
Anonymous persons have claimed the responsibility for the incident in a handout written in Punjabi and pasted on a wall of a park.
Police have started a probe while forensic teams also reached the spot.
A fire brigade official said the department received the information about the burning of cars around 4 am.
He said efforts were made to douse the fire, but the cars were already damaged by the time the fire brigade team reached the spot. He said they could not ascertain how the cars caught fire.
Deputy Commissioner of Police (Law and Order) Jagmohan Singh said the matter was under investigations and nothing could be said at the moment.
He said forensic team was pressed to service to know how the cars burnt.
About the handout pasted on a wall of a park, the officer said it was being looked into.
The police have reportedly stumbled upon the CCTV footage of the incident, but DCP said it was being analysed.
In the handout, the anonymous persons claimed that the COVID-19 pandemic has proved all the religious preachers wrong.
Some objectionable remarks were also made against a Jalandhar-based sect in the handout and it was mentioned that more vehicles would be burned after May 18 if the supporters of the sect did not flee from the sect’s ashram.
