A day after former SAD MLA Sarup Chand Singla alleged unlawful sand mining contained in the Guru Nanak Dev Thermal Plant (GNDTP) premises, the Bathinda police constituted a Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the criticism.
Bathinda SSP Bhupinder Singh Virk mentioned: “A 3-member SIT has been constituted. Its members are SP City Jaspal Singh, DSP City 1 Aswant Singh and Area SHO Ravinder Singh. He has been requested to submit the inquiry report in per week. The criticism concerning alleged assault on Singla may even be investigated and motion can be taken as per legislation.
On Sunday morning, Singla had carried out a Facebook Live session from contained in the thermal plant, wherein he accused Bathinda MLA Manpreet Singh Badal and his brother-in-law and Congress chief Jaijit Singh Johal of allegedly being concerned in unlawful sand mining.
While taking pictures the video within the space the place vans have been being loaded, he mentioned: Look at this space and brother-in-law has made it a method of unlawful sand mining. Now every little thing is obvious.” Johal, however, denied the allegations and said that the fly ash being transported by trucks was not sand, and “nothing unlawful was being completed”.
Singla, nonetheless, mentioned: “I complained to the SSP on an affidavit that sand mining was being completed myself. Fine sand is being extracted from the realm the place fly ash is mendacity for the final a number of years. This unlawful sand mining is happening because the Congress authorities got here to energy and we’ve all of the proofs for it. If FIR will not be registered towards the culprits then I’ll strategy the High Court. If I’m proved unsuitable on this criticism, I’ll give up politics.
Soon after Singla’s Facebook Live on Sunday, Congress MLA Amarinder Raja Warring had additionally tweeted the identical video and requested the Punjab CM to get the matter investigated. Ludhiana MP Ravneet Singh Bittu retweeted Waring’s tweet.
However, Waring didn’t remark additional on the problem on Monday.
Manpreet Badal’s workplace denied Singla’s allegations, however didn’t reply to Waring’s tweet.
Police sources mentioned the over 900-acre GNDTP space is filled with fly ash and it’s being taken out recurrently.
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With inputs from TheIndianEXPRESS
