Cop's hand chopped off during lockdown order enforcement- Patiala Punjab

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A policeman's hand was chopped off and few others were injured when a group of Nihangs (an armed order of the Sikh community) allegedly attacked them at a vegetable market in Punjab's Patiala district on Sunday.

The incident took place when restrictions are in place in the state due to the COVID-19 lockdown. According to Dinkar Gupta, Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab, Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police (ASI) Harjeet Singh's hand got cut off in the incident and he was immediately rushed to the PGI Chandigarh for surgery.

Gupta spoke to PGI's Director who has deputed top plastic surgeons of PGI for the police officer's surgery, which has begun. The DGP said that the Nihang group will be arrested and action will be initiated against them soon.

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Cop’s hand chopped off, 6 others injured in attack by ‘Nihangs’ in Punjab's Patiala

'Nihangs' surrender after standoff at Gurdwara Khichri Sahib.

 

Aman Sood
Tribune News Service
Patiala, April 12

A policeman’s hand was chopped off and six other police officials were injured when a group of people allegedly attacked them at Sanaur vegetable market in Punjab’s Patiala district on Sunday, police said. 

The 'Nihangs' then fled to Gurdwara Khichri Sahib, where, after an initial standoff, the police arrested seven of them.

One of them was injured in police firing and was being taken to a hospital for treatment, said KBS Sidhu, Special Chief Secretary, Punjab, in a tweet. He said out of the seven, five were involved in the attack on police officials. 

They have been taken to the CIA (Crime Investigation Agency) office for interrogation.

Two of them refused to cooperate and shouted religious and anti-police slogans.

They said that they "feared no one" and were justified in their act of chopping off the hand of an on-duty ASI.

About 100 cops have been deployed to search the residential premises near the gurdwara for arms. A police team met village heads and local religious leaders and took control of the gurdwara.

Patiala IG Jatinder Aulakh said that police have recovered intoxicants and weapons from the rooms adjacent to the gurdwara—where the accused were staying.

“Seven have been arrested and the search operation continues,” Aulakh told The Tribune.

He said that police teams are searching the nearby fields in case some weapons were hidden there, just before the surrender, to deceive policemen.

Six cops have been admitted in two hospitals in Patiala while the ASI, whose hand was chopped, was referred to PGI for a surgery.

Sanaur residents claim that the 'Nihangs' have often broken the law in the past but no action was taken against them.

 

Recently, a few of them had slapped an elderly man and his son, following a road rage incident, near Sanaur. However, later, a compromise was struck.

Standoff at Gurdwara Khichri Sahib

Shortly after the attack, police teams, led by Patiala SSP Mandeep Singh Sidhu and supervised by the Patiala IG, reached the gurdwara and urged the 'Nihangs' to surrender. Police sealed the area around the gurdwara and the village with three-tier security so that no one could escape.

The 'Nihangs' had initally refused to surrender. The police also lacked an estimate of the number of armed men inside the gurdwara.

“Our teams have surrounded the gurdwara where the accused are. We are requesting them to give up and come outside. However, they are yet to surrender,” Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta told The Tribune, while the standoff was still on.

 

Senior officers at the scene said that the total number of armed 'Nihangs' inside the gurdwara was not known.

“Announcements have been made using loudspeakers and also requests by many other Nihangs leaders, including Baba Balbir Singh head of the Buddha Dal Nihang faction—one of the biggest and richest in the country, but the accused have not turned out,” said the official.

Attacked police, mandi board officials 

A group of five ‘Nihangs’, armed with swords and iron rods, were travelling in a vehicle and they were asked to stop at a vegetable market by Mandi board officials.

“They were asked to show curfew passes. But they crashed the vehicle against the gate and barricades put up there,” said Mandeep Singh Sidhu, SSP, Patiala.

 

They did not follow basic rules of staying away from each other. Later they had a tiff with Mandi Board officials who refused to allow them to buy stuff without standing in a queue, said Sidhu.

"When the police asked them for curfew passes, they attacked the cops inside and outside at the market. They even banged their car in the police barricade and then got off the vehicle to attack cops with swords and rods," stated the SSP.

An injured cop

 

The group then attacked the police personnel on duty, he said.

An Assistant Sub-Inspector’s hand was chopped off by a sword, while two others sustained injuries on their elbows and arms, Sidhu said.

The Nihangs fled the scene after the attack, the SSP said.

 

 

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Asked to Show Curfew Passes During Lockdown in Patiala, 'Nihangs' Chop Off Cop's Arm, Injure Two Others

The Punjab Police personnel was attacked after a group of people were asked to show their curfew pass amid movement restrictions put across the state to curb the spread of corona virus.

 

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Punjab Cop's Hand Chopped, 2 Injured In Attack By Group Defying Lockdown

The policeman -- Assistant Sub-Inspector of Police Harjeet Singh -- has been taken to the hospital where the doctors are operating on him.

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https://www.ndtv.com/video/news/news/punjab-cop-s-hand-chopped-2-injured-in-attack-by-group-defying-lockdown-545421

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Seven held in Patiala for chopping off cop's hand, attacking other policemen 

Seven people were arrested from a gurdwara with regard to the incident in which a group of Nihang sikhs got into a scuffle with policemen at Patiala vegetable market.

The group had chopped off the left hand of an assistant sub-inspector and injured other cops including a station house officer on Sunday morning. 

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3 minutes ago, Kool_SRG said:

Seven held in Patiala for chopping off cop's hand, attacking other policemen 

Seven people were arrested from a gurdwara with regard to the incident in which a group of Nihang sikhs got into a scuffle with policemen at Patiala vegetable market.

The group had chopped off the left hand of an assistant sub-inspector and injured other cops including a station house officer on Sunday morning. 

Lopalesi kullapodicheyaali vedhavalani...

 

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Thoo nee yabba Syria kanna ghoranga ayyaru kadara 

sikhs are sick - they won’t hesitate to send their wife to other guys if required

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47 minutes ago, Bhumchik said:

Thoo nee yabba Syria kanna ghoranga ayyaru kadara 

sikhs are sick - they won’t hesitate to send their wife to other guys if required

endi ankul antha pedda mata anesnav? 

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1 hour ago, ChinnaBhasha said:

endi ankul antha pedda mata anesnav? 

i did not say that - another sikh guy told me about it. how would i know it?

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12 minutes ago, Bhumchik said:

i did not say that - another sikh guy told me about it. how would i know it?

I know ye group ni vadalaru. personal experience undhi for my extended family living in and around delhi in early 80s, entha visham kakkinaaro hindutva on sikh people.