AAP ministers meet family of cop killed in Gurdaspur in Punjab, extend support
India Today
AAP minister Lal Chand Kataruchak also slammed ISI for its alleged role in destabilising India by using the soil of Punjab. He urged Punjab's youth not to fall prey to the ill intentions of the spy agency.
Punjab Cabinet Ministers Lal Chand Kataruchak (Minister of Food, Civil Supplies and Consumer Affairs of Punjab) and Laljit Singh Bhullar (Minister of Transport) on Saturday met the family members of the deceased Assistant Sub-Inspector (ASI) of the Punjab Police, Gurnam Singh, to extend their condolences. Singh, along with home guard Ashok Kumar, was found dead on February 22 with gunshot wounds.
Their bodies were recovered from a checkpost in Punjab's Adhian Village, two-kilometres away from Pakistan’s border. Three local youths, Ranjit Singh (19), Inderjit Singh (21), and Dilwar Singh (19), were identified by the police later, for allegedly being involved in the murder. As per the preliminary information, the murders were carried out at the behest of the ISI handlers.
The police further revealed that the three accused acted for a promised payment of Rs 20,000 from Pakistan-based handlers.
While meeting the family members, both ministers conveyed that the Punjab government stands firmly with them in this hour of grief and will extend every possible support. He also said that the Punjab Chief Minister will meet the victims’ families soon.
"The killing of our brave police personnel, Gurnam Singh and Ashok Kumar, while they were on duty at the Adhian checkpost, was a cowardly act. This was not merely an attack on the police force, but an attack on the soil of Punjab and on the peace of its people," Kataruchak said. "The sacrifice of our martyrs will not be allowed to go in vain, and the guilty will be given the strictest punishment under the law," he further added.
Appreciating the role of the Punjab Police, Bhullar, on the other hand, said that the police traced and arrested all the accused in the case, which sends a clear message that anyone on the wrong side of the law will face the strictest action.
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