NEW DELHI: A bitter slugfest between the BJP and the AAP ensued after the arrest of Delhi BJP spokesperson and the nationwide secretary of the Bharatiya Janata Yuva Morcha Tajinder Bagga by the Punjab police from his Delhi arena on Friday. Police forces from three states – Punjab, Delhi and Haryana – obtained embroiled in dramatic dispositions that befit a blockbuster thriller. All of it began with the Punjab police gripping Mr Bagga from his home, supreme to be stopped at Kurukshetra by the Haryana police en path to Mohali and hours later brought aid to the nationwide capital by the Delhi police after it acted on a grievance of kidnapping by the BJP leader’s father.
The drama, an slay consequence of a bitter political contention between the AAP and the BJP, began spherical 8am when over a dozen personnel of the Punjab police swooped down on Mr Bagga’s arena in Jankapuri, West Delhi.
The solutions referring to the arrest of Mr Bagga by Punjab police develop into public after BJP leader Kapil Mishra posted about it on the social media. “Tajinder Bagga used to be arrested and taken away by 50 Punjab police personnel from his apartment,” Mr Mishra wrote on Twitter.
Soon afterwards, Mr Bagga’s 67-year-frail father Preetpal Singh Bagga, who Mr Mishra claimed used to be thrashed and punched by the Punjab police, lodged a grievance with the Delhi police. He claimed that some folk came to his arena spherical 8am and took away his son and did no longer even allow his son to set up on a turban.
The Delhi BJP president Adesh Gupta accompanied Mr Singh when he went to the police stations to file an FIR. A case of kidnapping used to be registered at the Janakpuri police station.
The motion then shifted to Kurukshetra, where spherical 2pm the convoy of the Punjab police used to be stopped by the Haryana police. Explaining their motion, the Haryana police officers mentioned they’d received the tips that Mr Bagga used to be forcibly picked up from his arena. “We had been altered by the Delhi Police referring to the “kidnapped sufferer. We are responsibility certain to verify and crosscheck such dispositions,” the officers added.
The drama climaxed with a Delhi police workforce reaching Kurukshetra’s Thana Sadar police station in Pipli and taking the ‘custody’ of Mr Bagga from the Punjab police. Mr Bagga used to be then brought aid to Delhi by the police workforce that moreover incorporated DCP (outer) Sameer Sharma and additional DCP (west) Prashant Gautam.
The Delhi police claimed that the Punjab cops did no longer expose the native police sooner than gripping Mr Bagga from his arena in Delhi’s Janakpuri.
DCP (west) Ghanshyam Bansal mentioned that knowledge used to be received from Mr Singh that his son has been kidnapped spherical 8.30am from his apartment by some unknown persons.
“A wireless message used to be flashed and the mentioned automobile used to be intercepted by the Haryana police at Kurukshetra. A search warrant used to be obtained from the concerned Dwarka court per which assistance of Kurukshetra district police used to be taken to trace and kidnapped sufferer used to be recovered. He’s going to be delivered to Delhi and will be produced sooner than the concerned honourable court as per legislation,” mentioned the DCP.
As per the FIR, Mr Singh acknowledged that on Friday, when he used to be at home along with his son, spherical 8.30am, any individual knocked the door. “After I opened the door, some persons entered home and manhandled me. Some of them had weapons and in narrate that they began asking me where is Tajinder? After I asked them what they wished from Tajinder, they slapped me. Later, my son came there and he too used to be overwhelmed up. After I attempted to intervene, they pushed me,” the FIR reads.
“After I took out my phone to make their video, they beat me up and snatched my mobile. Later, they forcefully took away my son who used to be no longer allowed to set up on a turban and used to be dragged out of the home,” the FIR additional acknowledged.
Following the arrest, the Punjab police, in a assertion, mentioned, “The accused used to be served 5 notices below Sections 41 A CrPC to diagram and join the investigation. The notices dated April 9, 11, 15, 22 and 28 had been duly served upon. Despite that, the accused deliberately did no longer join the investigation.”
The Aam Aadmi Birthday party (AAP) defended the pass by the Punjab police and claimed that the advise police had registered a case against him last month after he, thru his social media posts, tried to create communal stress and incite violence in the advise.
The AAP moreover alleged that the Punjab police personnel had been illegally detained by the Delhi police officers at Janakpuri police station after they’d reached there to expose about their motion.
Saurabh Bhardwaj, the AAP spokesperson, mentioned that a case against Mr Bagga used to be filed last month after the BJP leader, thru his social media posts, tried to create communal stress and incite violence in the advise and since of such statements, the Punjab police lodged an FIR and now arrested Bagga.
Countering the arrest the BJP launched a plump-blown attack on AAP. From sharing videos and photos of the incident, to alleging that Mr Bagga’s father used to be assaulted, tweets poured out on the social media web hiss material by the BJP leaders.
Delhi BJP leaders and workers headed by the celebration’s advise president staged a affirm and raised slogans against AAP chief Arvind Kejriwal and the Punjab police even because the Delhi police tried to pause them from transferring to the AAP headquarters on DDU Marg.
Delhi BJP chief mentioned a grievance has been lodged at the Janakpuri police station in the nationwide capital over the Punjab police allegedly beating of Mr Bagga’s father.
“FIR used to be lodged at Janakpuri police station over the Punjab police beating Tajinder Bagga’s father. Sending 50-60 Punjab police personnel to the home of the young BJP leader, forcibly lifting him and getting his elderly father overwhelmed up is proof of the dictatorial mindset of Arvind Kejriwal,” Mr Gupta tweeted in Hindi.
BJP leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa alleged that a Sikh, a reference to Mr Bagga, has been “insulted” despite Punjab having a Sikh chief minister in Bhagwant Mann.
Delhi BJP spokesperson Praveen Shankar Kapoor mentioned the celebration strongly condemns the arrest of Mr Bagga. “It be highly low that Mr Kejriwal has began political misuse of vitality and the police in AAP-dominated Punjab to alarm his opponents. Every citizen of Delhi stands with Mr Bagga and his household in this hour of disaster,” he mentioned.
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