Proclaimed offender of Punjab sacrilege cases held in Bengaluru
Darpan News Desk IANS, 23 May, 2023 10:48 AM
Chandigarh, May 23 (IANS) Proclaimed offender of the highly sensitive 2015 Bargari sacrilege cases in Punjab, Sandeep Bareta, was arrested from the Bengaluru airport on Tuesday, police said.
A lookout notice issued against him by Punjab Police.
The police said in a tweet that a police party has been sent for getting the accused for his production before a court and seeking police remand for custodial interrogation.
Following incidents of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib in 2015 and subsequent violence in the state, the police force was accused of excesses which had left two people dead.
Former state minister Bikram Singh Majithia said that AAP legislators who had been caught in Jalandhar on the polling day or had been photographed there included Dalbir Singh Tong, Daljit Singh Grewal, Jasbir Sandhu, Gurpreet Gogi, Amolak Singh, Madan Lal Bagga and Ajay Gupta.
The accused -- Azadvir Singh, Amreek Singh, Sahib Singh, Harjeet Singh and Dharmendra Singh -- have confessed the crime. Three of them were involved in the sourcing of the explosives.
Seven members of a family were burnt to death after a massive fire engulfed their entire house in Uttar Pradesh's Kushinagar district. The victims comprised four minor girls, their mother and grandparents.
The Enforcement Directorate (ED) on Thursday arrested a third accused in the Rs 2,000 crore liquor scam in Chhattisgarh. According to sources, the third accused has been identified as Pappu Dhillo, a liquor businessman.
Special Commissioner of Police (Crime Branch) Ravindra Singh Yadav said that the complainant Harpreet Singh, who is running his jewellry shop at the ground floor of his residence in Delhi's Farsh Bazaar area, reported on April 17 that six individuals including one woman entered his shop, introducing themselves as CBI officials.
Additional Chief Secretary A. Venu Prasad, Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) Chairman H.S. Hanspal and head of Indo-German Energy Programme GIZ, Winfried Damm, also launched decision support tool and Amritsar smart city portal and renewable purchase obligations (RPO) portal for the state.
