Tilak Nagar, Subhash Nagar, Tagore Garden Metro stations closed
Tilak Nagar, Subhash Nagar and Tagore Garden Metro stations were shut down after Akali Dal activists laid seige to the premises of an old age home owned by the Delhi Social Welfare department. Delhi Police removed the encroachment from the old age home after it received a complaint from the Delhi Government. It has been revealed that group of Sikhs started Akhand Kirtan in the premises as it was lying vacant. Tension gripped the area after Delhi Police moved in and the cleared the premises from those who claimed to be in a religious congregation.
According to the police, the tension flared in the early hours on Thursday when locals in the area complained of a religious meeting being held at an open land in 1984 anti-Sikh riots widow’s colony by the Akalis. Police officials immediately reached the location and dispersed the crowd. Angry over this a large number of Sikh protesters staged a protest and blocked one of the carriageways outside the Tilak Nagar police station, which led to traffic jam. The protesters alleged that the police officials forcefully stopped there Akhand Path and also took the custody of their holy book Guru Granth Sahib. President of the Delhi Sikh Gurudwara Management Committee (DSGMC) Manjit Singh GK told The Pioneer that the keys and the custodians of the said land are former Member of legislative Assembly (MlA) and it was only a religious meeting which is conducted in favour and for the welfare of the people.
“We registered a case of trespassing on the complaint of the Social Welfare Department. The four men were detained and let off after finishing the formalities. Precautionary measures were taken and force was deployed including the paramilitary forces to avoid any untoward incident,” said Deputy Commissioner of Police (West) Ranvir Singh.