Sunday, June 22, 2008

Dera chief\'s aide confess of firing on a Sikh mob

Mumbai, Jun 21: One of the three arrested for the killing of a Sikh in a firing by bodyguards of Dera Sachcha chief Gurmeet Ram Rahim here on Friday, has confessed to having fired the round from his pistol at the crowd, a senior police official said.
He said Jagdev Singh Gurdev Singh has confessed to having opened fire from his licensed Mauser pistol.

Eleven more who were with the Dera chief at the time of the incident have been detained and will be arrested soon, police said, adding they will be booked for rioting and assaulting.

\"Now onwards, we will focus if the firing was in self defence or unprovoked,\" said the police officer.

Meanwhile, police suspect that one more person, apart from Jagdev Singh Gurdev Singh had fired as two empty shells of a 0.9 mm round were also found at the scene of crime on the L B S Marg, he said, adding forensic tests will ascertain the facts.

Reconstructing the sequence of events on Friday, the officer said two persons, including the deceased Balkar Singh Thakur Singh, got into a tiff with the Dera head\'s staff as they were not allowed entry into a shop.

Later, when the Dera chief left the mall in a motorcade, the duo\'s car happened to come near it after which some of the escort staff got down from their jeeps armed with sticks. They allegedly broke the windshield of Thakur\'s car and in the melee Gurudev Singh is suspected to have fired.

The incident has led to protests by the Sikh community who put up road and rail blockades in and around Mulund since Friday evening.

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