The following Gursikhs have been taken into custody by Punjab Police on 28 March 2012 following peaceful protests in support of Bhai Balwant Singh Rajoana:
Bhai Simranjit Singh Mann – SAD (A) President
Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu – SAD (Panthic ) President
Baba Baljit Singh Dadu Sahib Wale – Panthic Seva Lehar
Bhai Harpal Singh
Cheema – SAD (Panthic) Secretary General
Bhai Parmjit Singh Saholi - SAD (Independent) President
Bhai Gurdip Singh Gosha – Youth Akali Dal Delhi President
Bhai Gurinder Pal Singh Dhaola – Former Secretary General of
SAD (A)
Bhai Jaswinder Singh Balia – SAD Delhi President
Bhai Gursavar Singh – SAD (A) State General Secretary
Bhai Jasveer Singh Kandoor -
SAD (Panthic) Secretary General
Three protest
marches banned, crackdown against Panthic bodies
PTI | 11:03 PM,Mar 28,2012
in Punjab Chandigarh,
March 28 (PTI) - In a major crackdown against radical Sikhs and their
organisations, Punjab police tonight detained several leaders and activists and
banned three protest marches to be held tomorrow in support of Balwant Singh
Rajoana, convict in the Beant Singh assassination case. Punjab Police sources
told PTI here tonight that those taken into custody include SAD (A) president Simranjit Singh Mann, SAD Panthic
secretary general Harpal Singh Cheema,
president SAD (Independent) Parmjit
Saholi and president Youth Akali Dal (Delhi) Gurdip Gosha. Among the others are former secretary general of SAD
(A) Gurinder Pal Dhanola, chairman
of Panthic Seva Lehar Baljit Singh
Daduwal, president SAD (Panthic) Daljit
Singh Bittu, president SAD (Delhi) Jaswinder
Singh Balia and State General Secretary of SAD (A) Guru Savar Singh. The
total number of persons apprehended so far as a preventive measure was not yet
known, the sources said adding that the detention of the leaders and activists
of these organisations have been made under Sections 107/151 (apprehension of
breach of peace). The detentions were made from various districts, including
Bathinda, Gurdaspur, Ludhiana and Amritsar. The sources said that the state has
also banned three protest marches which the radical Sikhs and various Panthic organisations
were scheduled to take out from three different Takhts located at Anandpur
Sahab (Takht Keshgarh Sahab), Takht Damdama Sahab (Talwandi Sabo, Muktsar) and
Amritsar (Akal Takht) tomorrow. The protest marches were to culminate outside
the Central Jail at Patiala where Rajoana is lodged.(MORE) PTI AKA PL.
