Dera committee members indicate large gathering at Salabatpura in coming days

Sukhmeet Bhasin
Tribune News Service
Bathinda, November 24

The Dera Sacha Sauda committee members have indicated that if justice is not given to them soon then more dera followers will reach Salabatpura, the state headquarters of the Sirsa-based sect in Punjab, in the coming days.

Around 3,000 dera members from nearby blocks are already present at Salabatpura. The dera committee members from Haryana and Rajasthan, who came to Salabatpura to participate in the protest told that a large number of dera followers want to come here and participate in this protest but the dera committee members from Punjab told them that so far they had not called dera followers from Punjab.

Dera committee member Harcharan Singh said, “The dera followers have come today to Salabatpura in high numbers and we are flooded with phone calls of followers from Haryana and Rajasthan as well as followers who want to come here in protest as days are passing and they want a new course of action.”

He also said that their talks with district administration are still going on but it has failed to reach any conclusion. He said they want this issue to be resolved at the earliest.

SSP Bhupinderjeet Singh Virk said, “We are working on this and teams are conducting raids to arrest the accused in this case.”

The dera followers protest today entered day four at Salabatpura and till date they have not cremated the body of the dera member, deceased Manohar Lal, who was shot dead in his shop at Bhagta Bhaika on Friday evening.

The pressure is mounting on the state government and police to act quickly and solve this case as dera followers are adamant that they won’t cremate the body till the time police nab the killers.

It is also learnt that apart from this, dera committee members have taken up the issue of slow probe in old murder case of dera follow Mohinderpal as well.    

Gangster Sukha Gill Lamme, whose Facebook page was deleted by the Bathinda police after he took the responsibility for the killing of the Dera Sacha Sauda member on the social media website, today once again posted on Facebook from another account.

In the post, Sukha Gill Lamme stated: “Brothers, our posts were deleted by reporting ID, but our statement is still the same today.”

He also said that “enemies of Sikh community should be alert”.

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