DW BUREAU / Chandigarh

A senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) delegation met DGP Law and Order Arpit Shukla and demanded strict action as per law against Mandi Board chief engineer Jatinder Singh Bhangu for threatening to murder the party's chief spokesperson Arshdeep Singh Kler.

The delegation, comprising Maheshinder Singh Grewal, Dr Daljit Singh Cheema and Hira Singh Gabhria besides the complainant Arshdeep Kler, apprised the DGP that the Mandi Board chief engineer had rung up Kler and abused him besides asserting that he had murdered fifty persons and that four more remained to be killed with Kler becoming the fifth addition to his hit list. Earlier the SAD had registered its complaint with DGP Gaurav Yadav also.

Explaining the entire incident to the DGP, Kler said he had participated in a debate on party president Balwinder Singh Bhundar's plea for panthic unity today. He said during the course of the debate he had pointed out to Akali rebel Charanjit Singh Brar that the latter's group was constantly holding meetings and hatching conspiracies against the SAD in the office of the Punjab Mandi Board in Chandigarh. Kler said immediately after the debate Jatinder Bhangu rang him and while referring to himself as Dibrugarh detainee Amritpal Singh's "man", said he would kill Kler in case he ever again referred to any such meetings being held in the Mandi Board. "He also asked me to narrate this to former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal".

Briefing the DGP, senior leaders Maheshinder Grewal and Dr Daljit Cheema also asked the former to probe the role of Mr Charanjit Brar in instigating hatred against Kler following which Bhangu had issued a death threat to the SAD spokesperson.

They said it was Brar who had admitted that the rebel group was holding regular meetings in the Mandi Board office.

(editor@dailyworld.in)