Lok Insaaf Party (LIP) chief MLA Simarjit Singh Bains, along with his supporters, staged a protest for four hours outside the office of Khanna SSP Harpreet Singh on Tuesday, seeking action against police personnel for cane-charging his party workers at Payal police station and tossing the turban of a worker, Manvinder Singh Giaspura, on September 20. Bains also threatened to intensify the protest if the SSP does not ensure action againt the cops.
Bains alleged that on September 20 the party workers were protesting peacefully outside police station, Payal. During the protest certain cops had tried to strangulate Giaspura and other party workers with a rope, passed caste-based derogatory remarks and tossed their turbans before cane-changing them. The LIP workers were protesting as a resident of Maksudra village was allegedly picked up by police after he had lodged a complaint against a sarpanch and a panch for allegedly taking Rs 10,000 bribe to get his case cleared under Pradhan Mantri Awas Yojana (PMAY).
It was being alleged that during the protest LIP workers pelted the police station with stones and also manhandled a cop inside the police station and even pulled of his turban. On asking about it, Bains said that the stones were thrown at them by the cops in civvies and not by LIP workers. Bains said he would seek apology if the turban of any cop was dislodged.
The MLA while protesting outside the SSP office demanded an FIR against police personnel for thrashing LIP worker and tossing turban of another. Bains said that if the police would not take action, then they would block the national highway and even file a writ petition in the court.
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