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Our Correspondent
Fazilka, February 3
A day after registration of a criminal case in the Jalalabad poll violence case against 50-60 unidentified persons, three Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders have also been booked.
These leaders are SAD Fazilka unit president Ashok Aneja; Davinder Singh Babbal, former chairman, market committee, Jalalabad, and Jagsir Singh, alias Babbu Jaimalwala, former president, Truck Operators’ Union, Jalalabad, along with five to six unidentified persons.
The SAD leaders have been booked on the basis of a statement by Congress worker Ranjit Singh who alleged the leaders opened fire during the violence which took place in the tehsil complex at the time of filing of nomination papers for the MC poll on Tuesday. Ranjit Singh was “injured” in the violence.
JALALABAD: A group of miscreants allegedly attacked the vehicle of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) president Sukhbir Singh Badal in Jalalabad town in Fazilka district on Tuesday when he reached there during the filing of nominations by SAD candidates for local body polls. A case under attempt to murder charges was registered against 50-60 unidentified people.
SAD alleged that the moment Sukhbir’s convoy entered the administrative complex in Jalalabad, a group of miscreants started pelting it with stones while some others fired gunshots, injuring three party workers. Sukhbir alleged that “policebacked Congress goons”, led by the son of a Congress MLA, made an attempt on his life and the three SAD workers who received bullet injuries came to his rescue.