A Phone Call, Then Punjab Police Officer's U-Turn On Lynching Case


New Delhi: Hours later a man was pounded into the ground within the sight of cops in Punjab's Kapurthala, cops precluded a heresy interface and surprisingly backtracked on their own explanation later a call in a question and answer session.

During his 45-minute press meet yesterday, Kapurthala police boss GS Dhillon previously said a FIR had been documented into the killing. "A FIR has been enrolled on the assertion of our SHO (Station House Officer) on how individuals didn't permit cops to play out their obligation, whipped the charged who later kicked the bucket," the Kapurthala Inspector General said.

Then, at that point, came a call for which he left the room. At the point when he returned, Mr Dhillon offered something totally unique. "The second FIR on killing has not been enrolled... we will find out the personality of the blamed and afterward register the case," he said.

On Sunday, a crowd got around the mass of a Gurdwara in Kapurthala to get to the man, who had been blamed for attempting to eliminate the Nishan Sahib (Sikh banner). Before the cops, the man was pounded into the ground and his body was removed in a police vagabond.

"We engaged individuals to permit us to take the charged along yet feelings were running high," Mr Dhillon conceded.

However the police got him, Sikh gatherings had demanded that he be addressed before them. Cellphone recordings showed the man being beaten with sticks.

As indicated by the police, the episode seemed, by all accounts, to be an instance of robbery, not blasphemy. "There are no noticeable indications of a heresy endeavor," said Mr Dhillon.

The character of the man pounded into the ground in Kapurthala has not been set up yet. The police additionally still can't seem to recognize the man lynched in Amritsar's Golden Temple on the earlier day, following a supposed blasphemy endeavor.

On Saturday, during evening petitions at the Golden Temple, a man in his mid 20s hopped into the nook where the Granth Sahib - which the Sikhs call their eleventh Guru - is kept. He was considered getting a brilliant sword to be clerics raced to overwhelm him.

The man was pounded into the ground. Vice president Minister Sukhjinder Singh Randhawa said no cell phone, no tote, no character card or Aadhaar card was found from him.

The occurrences have caused pressure in a state where blasphemy is an exceptionally emotive issue. The police have moved forward security close gurdwaras. In front of the following year's races, it has likewise embraced political hints, with a group inside the Congress blaming the Amarinder Singh government for neglecting to address the last series of heresies.

The Akali Dal has considered it a "profound trick" to "upset harmony and collective amicability in the state". Shiromani Akali Dal boss Sukhbir Singh Badal censured the state government, saying that there were solid signs of a connivance.

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