Dera follower shot dead in Punjab's Faridkot, incident caught on CCTV
Chandigarh (PTI): A Dera Sacha Sauda follower, who was an accused in a 2015 sacrilege incident, was shot dead on Thursday by five unidentified assailants in Punjab's Faridkot district, police said.
Pardeep Singh was opening his dairy shop in Kotkapura when he was shot dead and the incident was caught on a CCTV camera installed nearby, they said, adding his gunman also sustained bullet injuries.
Singh was one of the accused in a case of theft of a 'bir' (copy) of the Guru Granth Sahib in 2015 in Faridkot and was currently on bail.
Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann appealed for peace, and said no one will be allowed to disturb peace in the state.
Punjab is a peace loving state where mutual brotherhood of people is very strong...No one will be allowed to disturb the peace of Punjab Strict instructions to the civil and police officials to maintain the peace and tranquillity in the state, said Mann in a tweet.
Speaking to reporters, Inspector General of Police (Faridkot Range) Pradeep Kumar Yadav said police have got some leads and are working on them.
He said the assailants will be arrested soon.
Police were also examining the CCTV footage of the incident which showed that the five had come on two bikes.
The sacrilege incidents in Faridkot in 2015 had triggered protests in the district.Two persons were killed in Behbal Kalan while some people were injured at Kotkapura in Faridkot after police fired at protesters in October 2015.
Dera Sacha Sauda chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh is serving a 20-year jail term for raping two women disciples at his ashram in Sirsa, where the dera is headquartered. He was convicted by a special CBI court in Panchkula in August 2017.
Big Breaking: Ram Rahim Dera follower Pradeep, named in FIR number 63 in Bargadi sacrilege case, was shot dead by unknown bike riders today morning when he was going to open his shop. He was also nominated in the case of theft of Guru Granth Sahib Ji from Burj Jawahar Singh Wala. pic.twitter.com/t8xBZPqWBS
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Will of people supreme, says Mahua Moitra after BJP's landslide victory in Bengal
Kolkata (PTI): A day after the Trinamool Congress faced a drubbing by the BJP in the West Bengal assembly elections, TMC MP Mohua Moitra on Tuesday said her party respects the mandate as the will of the people is supreme.
She also said that the party will continue the fight for a “secular country”.
In a post on X, Moitra said, “The will of the people is supreme. If Bengal wanted BJP, then Bengal has got BJP. We respect that.”
The BJP on Monday scripted history by winning 206 seats to secure more than a two-thirds majority in the West Bengal assembly polls, ending the TMC’s 15-year rule.
"We fought the good fight against unimaginable odds on an uneven pitch and for that I am proud of my leader & my party," Moitra said.
She said the TMC will continue to stand and fight for a secular country where the constitution, and "not brute majoritarianism, is the last word”.
