Congress legislature Party (ClP) leader Punjab, Charanjit Singh Channi, on Saturday visited Gurjant Singh, the survivor of the Abohar tragedy in which two people were brutally attacked and their limbs chopped off.
Channi said if the Government fails to book the culprits by Monday the Safai Karamchaaris across the State will hold strike as mark of protest.
Gurjant narrated the whole incident to Channi and said that still they are living in fear and agony. He also demanded that the owners of the farmhouse where this incident took place should be booked immediately, because their involvement is direct in this case.
Channi earlier met the family of Gurpreet Kaur of village Dayalpura, Tarn Taran who was killed by a bus owned by a leader of the Shiromani Akali Dal. He said Punjab & Haryana High Court should take the suo motto notice of the recent accidental deaths in Punjab by the buses of ruling family and their close associates. “These buses are crushing the children of the poor people in a routine manner,” he said.
Citing the recent cases involving the crushing of children by these buses in Channu and Tarn Taran, Channi said that the poor people are being crushed and then threatened not to pursue their cases.