The Delhi Police on Monday arrested a 21-year-old farmer, who had a reward of Rs 1 lakh on his head, for his alleged involvement. Red Fort Demolition The case is of Amritsar, Punjab.
DCP (Special Cell) Sanjeev Yadav mentioned, “Gurjot Singh, wanted in the Red Fort case and carrying a reward of Rs one lakh on his head, has been arrested from Amritsar by a team of the Northern Range of the Special Cell.”
Sources mentioned Gurjot is a farmer and hails from Talwandi Shobha Singh village in Tarn Taran district.
“He has visited the protest site on the Singhu border several times, including going there on January 22. On 26 January, he, along with three more people from the village, had entered Delhi on their tractors and reached the Red Fort. He was identified after police traced him in multiple footage from news channels, where he was seen giving a bite after the incident. Hours after the Red Fort was ransacked, he returned to the Singhu border, from where he went to his village. He had switched off his mobile phone since then,” mentioned police sources.
Days after the incident, Delhi Police Commissioner SN Srivastava had introduced a money reward of Rs one lakh for anybody sharing the knowledge that helped hint a number of accused, together with Gurjot Singh. Deep Sidhu, Jugraj Singh, Gurjant Singh and others.
“Several teams from the northern range conducted raids in Punjab and finally found them in Amritsar. He is accused of being involved in the hoisting of religious flags at the Red Fort. However, during interrogation, he denied all the allegations and claimed that Jugraj was behind what happened and he was standing with the mob,” mentioned sources.
So excess of 40 FIRs have been registered and 135 folks have been arrested within the Republic Day sabotage case.
About 1,000 folks on 30-40 tractors and 150 bikes and vehicles had forcibly entered the Red Fort complicated, the place they chased and assaulted policemen, looted their anti-riot gear, some inside a public bathroom Took hostage and ransacked the ticket counter. The FIR was learn out primarily based on a grievance by SHO (Kotwali) Rituraj. The Sikh spiritual flag Nishan Sahib was additionally hoisted on the Red Fort.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
