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Monday, June 11, 2012

Cow slaughter: SSP suspended for dereliction of duty in Punjab

JOGA/MANSA: After Punjab village situated on Barnala-Mansa road went on rampage over the killing of large number of cows at a factory, Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal suspended Mansa senior superintendent of police(SSP) Sukhdev Singh Chahal under suspension for dereliction of duty. THe chief minister has ordered inquiry into the incident. 

"SSP has been placed under suspension for failing to control the situation and dereliction in duty", confirmed Bathinda Inspector general of police(IG) Nirmal Singh Dhillon. 

IG talking to Times of India over phone said chief minister, who was personally monitoring the developments in the aftermath of killing of cows at a factory, has ordered the suspension of SSP Chahal for dereliction of duty. 

Police had failed to contain the unruly mob even after clamping of curfew and angry residents keep on damaging factory and putting articles of one of the factory owner' house on fire. 

Curfew has been clamped to contain the enraging crowd but people kept on defying the prohibitory orders. The police had to resort to cane-charge to control the unruly mob. Four persons got injured in the cane charging and stone pelting. 

Joga resident Sukhwinder Dass, who was working in the fields around Saturday midnight, saw a canter getting large number of cows to the factory and then heard shrieking of cows. "I apprised the villagers about the cows being transported to the factory with suspected intention of killing. When we reached the factory in the wee hours, we found many cows having been killed already and few waiting to be killed", said Sukhwinder. 

Seeing the heads of cows, the villagers got agitated. As the news spread, the activists of Hindu organizations started converging at the village and in no time, the activists started damaging the factory, said a villager. 

The irate activists of Hindu organizations along with Gowshala sangh members pulled down a part of factory owned by Joga residents Ajaib Singh, Narinder Singh and Bhushan Singh. VHP leader Lalit Kumar demanding stern action against guilty said, "We are shocked to see the killing of cows and the guilty need to be given exemplary punishment." 

Going by the agitated activists, district administration clamped curfew but when people kept on rampaging and indulged in stone pelting, police resorted to cane-charge wherein four persons got injured. 

Bathinda Inspector general of police(IG) Nirmal Singh, DC Mansa Amit Dhaka, Mansa MLA Prem Mittal visited the place and assured stern action. DC Amit Dhaka said district administration is keeping strict vigil over the situation and trying to put situation under control. 

Police have booked three partners of the factory under hurting the religious sentiments, cruelty to animals under cow protection act. 

The owners, however, succeeded in fleeing with family members to escape arrests. 

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