NE NEWS SERVICE
PATIALA (PUNJAB), APRIL 12
One of the hands of a police sub inspector was chopped off when a group of people attacked a police party outside the wholesale vegetable market here Sunday morning. Six other policemen were also injured in the attack.
The police arrested seven persons, including five ‘Nihang’ Sikhs, from a gurudwara after the attack on the police. ‘Nihang’ Sikhs are said to be part of the mob.
The police said that as the lockdown is in place in Punjab till May 1, police has put up barricades at the entry and exit of the wholesale vegetable market. They are asking passes for every vehicle entering the market.
When the ‘Nihang’ Sikhs boarding a vehicle reached the gate of the vegetable market at around .615 am, police asked them to show passes. Instead of showing the passes, they hit the barricades with their vehicle and attacked the police with swords in which one of the hands of a PSI was chopped off. He was taken to hospital for operation.
Patiala’s Senior Superintendent of Police Mandeep Singh Sidhu told mediapersons that the police chased the guilty persons and arrested them from a nearby Gurudwara where they had taken shelter. Sidhu said that the ‘Nihangs’were not having curfew passes.
Courtesy: indiatomorrow.net
