CHANDIGARH: Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Wednesday ordered withdrawal of Section 307 against farm law protestors who dumped cow dung outside a former BJP minister’s house. Captain Amarinder, who also holds the Home portfolio, also ordered transfer of the SHO who had registered the “attempt to murder” case, which is now being probed by a Special Investigative Team (SIT).
The Chief Minister said the SHO had gone overboard in registering a case under Section 307 of the IPC. “There was no attempt to murder,” he said, referring to the Hoshiarpur incident, in which a group of protestors had unloaded a trolley full of cow dung in front of former Punjab minister Tikshan Sud’s residence.
Meanwhile, the Chief Minister has termed correct and justified the arrest of Punjabi singer Shree Brar for a music video. Promoting gangsterism and gun culture in this manner was absolutely wrong, he said, adding that the case had been registered correctly in the matter which is related to an old song of the singer.
Captain Amarinder made it clear that the arrest had no connection with the singer’s video in support of the protesting farmers, which in fact was appreciable. However, his good work now could not condone the negative impact of his old song encouraging youth to pick up guns, CM added.
Noting that Punjab was a border state facing ongoing threats from across the border, the Chief Minister said “we will not allow the state’s peace to be disturbed in any manner”, which such acts had the potential to do.