CM Mann dials DGP, Aman Arora meets kin, promises justice
Amritsar/Tarn Taran, Jan. 6 -- Chief minister Bhagwant Mann has issued strict instructions to the police for the identification and arrest of the culprits involved in the killing of an Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader and village sarpanch. According to the police, AAP leader and village sarpanch Jarmal Singh, a resident of Valthoa village in Tarn Taran district, was attending a wedding in Amritsar on Sunday when two unidentified assailants shot him at point-blank range.
Mann received an update on the matter from director general of police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav over the phone and demanded immediate action. After the incident, police teams visited the spot, took CCTV footage, and recorded the statements of eyewitnesses. In the CCTV footage, two unidentified assailants are seen walking into the venue, one of them pulled out a gun and opened fire at the victim's head from point-blank range.
Police have launched an investigation and dispatched various teams to identify and nab the assailants, conducting raids in different parts of the city. Following the incident, a purported social media post by gangster Prabh Dasuwal, along with Doni Bal and others, claimed responsibility for the killing.
Cabinet minister and Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) state unit president Aman Arora met the victim's family and assured justice. Arora warned on Monday: "Those who have committed this heinous crime, and whoever stands behind them, whether the goons who pulled the triggers or their masters, will not be spared."
Arora visited the grieving family and assured them that the Punjab government stands firmly with them, calling for enhanced cooperation from the Centre to extradite fugitives like Dasuwal who direct crimes from foreign soil.
State Congress president Amarinder Singh Raja Warring said that the people of Punjab have lost all hope in the AAP-led government and the police in Punjab.
"There is nothing like police in Punjab anymore as if it does not exist," he said, while referring to daily incidents of broad daylight murders across the state with criminals having no fear of law anymore. Warring said that the Amritsar incident was the second of its kind, after a previous shooting at a Ludhiana wedding where two people were killed. He said the culprits had not been nabbed so far even after about two months having passed since the killings.
"This only suggests that the police have given up on crime and left people to their own fate", he added....
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