OROP row: 4 ex-servicemen climb atop water tower, threaten to jump

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Four retired non-commissioned officers climbed the water tower near Old Delhi Railway station over the issue of One Rank One Pension and threatened to jump on early Tuesday morning around 8 am.

Police said, the four members of Sabka Sainik Sangharsh Samiti with police intervention, they were pacified and eight-teen people who were accompanying them, were taken to the office of Ministry of Defence to meet the officers and put forth their demands, said a senior police officer.

The four people have been  identified as Gurcharan Singh, Kabal Singh, Satpal Singh and Kartar Singh and they had come from Punjab, said the officer.

A meeting was facilitated between the members of the body and the Ministry officials by police and the four men climbed down from the water tower around 4 pm.

“They thanked us for facilitating the meeting and left for their hometown after the delegation that had gone to meet ministry officials apprised them about the meeting and assured them that they had got a patient hearing from the concerned officials,” the

official said.

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