{"id":322050,"date":"2020-04-12T08:25:50","date_gmt":"2020-04-12T08:25:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=322050"},"modified":"2020-04-12T08:25:53","modified_gmt":"2020-04-12T08:25:53","slug":"punjab-7-nihangs-arrested-for-attacking-police-and-chopping-off-cops-hand-during-curfew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-7-nihangs-arrested-for-attacking-police-and-chopping-off-cops-hand-during-curfew\/","title":{"rendered":"Punjab: 7 Nihangs arrested for attacking police and chopping off cop&#8217;s hand during curfew"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/punjab-7-nihangs-arrested-for-attacking-police-and-chopping-off-cops-hand-during-curfew\/punjab-police-patiala\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-322051\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-322051 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/punjab-police-patiala-300x217.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"494\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/punjab-police-patiala-300x217.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/punjab-police-patiala-768x555.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/punjab-police-patiala-324x235.jpg 324w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/punjab-police-patiala-696x503.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/punjab-police-patiala-581x420.jpg 581w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2020\/04\/punjab-police-patiala.jpg 785w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a>Amidst the lock down, shocking news has come from Patiala in Punjab where Nihangs\u00a0 on Sunday morning attacked policemen on duty and cut off the hand of an ASI when they were asked for a curfew pass. Police has arrested 7 Nihangs related to this incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Punjab Police DGP Dinkar Gupta in a tweet said, \u201cIn an unfortunate incident today morning, a group of Nihangs injured a few Police officers and a Mandi Board official at Sabzi Mandi, Patiala. ASI Harjeet Singh whose hand got cut-off has reached PGI Chandigarh. I have spoken to Director PGI who has deputed top Plastic surgeons of PGI for surgery, which just started.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Many policemen and Mandi Board officials have been injured in this attack. According to the police, these Nihangs were asked to show the (curfew) pass but they hit the barricades from their car. After this, the Nihangs attacked the policemen on duty. The Nihangs fled the scene after the attack but were arrested later.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to Punjab Chief Secretary KBS Sidhu, \u201c7 Nihangs have been arrested from the Gurdwara in village Balbera. One of these was injured in the police firing and has been rushed to hospital. The operation was supervised by IG Patiala Zone, Jatinder Singh Aulakh.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">Shiromani Akali Dal leader Manjinder Singh Sirsa strongly condemned the incident. He said that the incident should not be associated with any particular religion and strict action should be taken against the perpetrators.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amidst the lock down, shocking news has come from Patiala in Punjab where Nihangs\u00a0 on Sunday morning attacked policemen on duty and cut off the hand of an ASI when they were asked for a curfew pass. Police has arrested 7 Nihangs related to this incident. Punjab Police DGP Dinkar Gupta in a tweet said, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":322051,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[12871,9454,12870,5451,1875],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322050"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322050"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322050\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":322053,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322050\/revisions\/322053"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/322051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}