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Tribune News Service
Ludhiana, April 24
Demanding the arrest of the SCD Government College principal in the FIR registered under Section 295-A of the IPC at Division No 8 police station, the Bajrang Dal activists held a protest outside the college today.
Led by activist Chetan Malhotra, they raised slogans against the Ludhiana police for failing to arrest the principal of the college. They also raised slogan against the college principal for hurting the religious sentiments of the community.
“We are holding a protest outside the college as the police have failed to arrest the accused involved in the FIR. We were assured by ACP Mandeep Singh that the accused would be held within two days due to which we lifted the dharna. But if the police fails to arrest the accused, we will lay a siege at the Bharat Nagar Chowk,” Chetan said. He also alleged that police was deliberately delaying the arrest of the accused in the case thereby giving time to them to get bail from the court.
On April 15, Division No 8 police registered a case under Section 295-A (Deliberate and malicious acts, intended to outrage religious feelings of any class by insulting its religion) of the IPC. As per the complaint given by Bajrang Dal, principal Dharam Singh Sandhu, professor Neelam Bhardwaj and the students were responsible for staging a play in the college campus that insulted the Hindu gods by speaking disrespectful dialogues against them.
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