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‘Cops trying to revive terrorism in Punjab’

CHANDIGARH: All-India Anti Terrorist Front (AIATF) chairman M. S. Bitta said on Monday that he had sent out letters to bring to the notice of the Prime Minister and the National Security Adviser that “some top officers of the Punjab Police were involved in a conspiracy to revive terrorism in Punjab by facilitating assassinations of top political leaders”.

Mr. Bitta made these claims while talking to reporters at a press conference where he offered to make a statement on oath in case the Government ordered a probe into involvement of police officers in the conspiracy to eliminate him as well as the present Punjab Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, his son Sukhbir Singh, PCC president Rajinder Kaur Bhattal, her predecessor Shamsher Singh Dullo and former Minister Harnam Das Johar.

Demanding a probe into the amassing of wealth and property by police officers who allegedly misappropriated funds and misused their position during Punjab’s own fight against terror, Mr. Bitta said there was a need to trace out a string of events in last few years. Dreaded terrorists being acquitted in trials due to lack of evidence, return of Khalistani ideologues to the political mainstream, detection of newer modules of terrorists, recovery of arms and ammunition and confessions of some arrested persons pointed a finger towards a sinister design to jeopardise national security, he said.

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