Suo motu action: Amritpal’s aide booked for uploading photos with gun

While Bhagwant could not be c ontacted as his phone came switched off, Moga SSP Gulneet Singh Khurana said that he has been booked after checking arms license records. “No arm license was issued in his name as per records. He is posing with weapons and then uploading pictures on Facebook from his account so he has been booked,” said SSP. On Monday, Punjab Congress chief Amrinder Singh Raja Warring, sharing a photograph of Amritpal and one more person holding guns, said that he welcomes and appreciate the Sikh preacher’s efforts towards baptising youth and bringing them close to the Sikhi, “but for Gurus’ sake don’t promote weapons which will eventually lead to violence”.

One of the pictures of Bhagwant Singh on his Facebook. (Source: Moga police)

“We have already paid heavy price. Those horrible memories are still haunting us. Please don’t push Punjab again into dark era,” he had said in a tweet. Warring last week had targeted AAP government over alleged public display of weapons by Amritpal’s followers at Rode, the ancestral village of Khalistani militant Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale, where the Sikh preacher had attended a religious programme. Warring had said that AAP government’s ban on display of weapons was being openly flouted and defied with administration failing to take any action against the culprits.

3 booked in Khanna for posing with weapons

The Khanna police has booked three persons, in three separate cases, for allegedly posting photographs while holding weapons on social media. Jaspreet Singh of village Balio; Ishwar Singh of village Manupur, both in Samrala; and Navdeep Singh of village Adhiana in Machhiwara have been booked under section 188 of IPC. The first two had posted pictures with weapons on Facebook while Navdeep had done so on Instagram. Inspector Bhinder Singh, SHO, Samrala police station, said they are scanning social media accounts following government ban on public display of weapons.