jairam thakur: One accused arrested in Khalistan flag incident, says CM Jairam Thakur

Thakur stated that two accused had been concerned in placing up the flags on the wall of the state Meeting, out of which one has been nabbed this morning.

Chatting with ANI, Thakur stated, “I wish to say that within the case the place Khalistani flags had been tied on the Himachal Pradesh Meeting gate, I’m sharing for the primary time that there have been two accused who had come to hold out the entire incident. One in every of them has been arrested earlier right this moment.”

Requested a few reported menace issued by a banned outfit stating that the rocket-propelled grenade blast that occurred exterior the Punjab Police Intelligence Headquarters in Mohali might have taken place exterior the Shimla police headquarters as nicely, the state Chief Minister stated that the incidents going down within the state are “a matter of concern”.

“I do not need to say something on a menace to me and so far as Gurpatwant Singh Pannun is worried, I do not take him very severely, however some incidents are taking place which is a matter of concern,” he stated.

In the meantime, after ‘Khalistan’ flags had been discovered tied on the Himachal Pradesh Meeting fundamental gate and partitions, the state police on Sunday booked banned outfit ‘Sikhs for Justice’ (SFJ) common counsel Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and referred to as him the ‘fundamental accused’ within the case.

“Holding in view the incidents of Khalistani components within the neighbouring states and in addition the incident of tying a Khalistani banner befell in Una district on April 11 and the latest incident of hoisting banners and graffiti of Khalistan on the outer boundary of Vidhan Sabha in Dharamshala in addition to the menace posed by Sikhs for Justice (SFJ) relating to the announcement of June 6 because the voting date for the Khalistan Referendum in Himachal Pradesh, the DGP-HP has issued instructions to the sector formations to stay on excessive alert from right this moment,” stated the assertion issued by the Himachal Pradesh Police.

Quickly after the incident got here to mild, a police official knowledgeable that the flags had been faraway from the gates and partitions.

Superintendent of Police, Kangra, Khushal Sharma stated, “We’ve got eliminated the Khalistan flags from the Vidhan Sabha gate. It may very well be an act of some vacationers from Punjab.”