Four-five extra safety personnel for Haryana MLAs who acquired risk calls

By PTI

CHANDIGARH: In the wake of 5 Haryana MLAs allegedly receiving risk calls just lately, Assembly Speaker Gian Chand Gupta on Monday held a gathering with prime brass of the state police and it was determined that they are going to be protected by 4 or 5 extra safety personnel.

The Speaker held a gathering with Director General of Police P Ok Agrawal, Additional DGP, CID, Alok Mittal, ADGP (Law and Order) Sandeep Khirwar and IG (Security) Saurabh Singh.

It was determined within the assembly that 4 or 5 extra safety personnel could be deployed to guard the MLAs who’ve acquired threats, in keeping with an announcement right here.

He has additionally requested the officers involved to conduct a high-level inquiry into the threatening calls and messages acquired by the MLAs.

The Speaker has additionally given directions to overview the safety of different MLAs.

Haryana has a 90-member state meeting.

State Home Minister Anil Vij had on Sunday stated all these calls to legislators are coming from overseas.

Vij stated the matter has been handed over to the Special Task Force for additional investigation and he’s monitoring the developments linked with the probe each day.

Notably, whereas one MLA who acquired risk name is from the BJP, the remaining 4 are from essential opposition Congress and many of the calls pertain to extortion threats remodeled cell phones of the legislators from unknown numbers.

Speaker Gupta stated those that threaten to kill the elected representatives of the individuals are immediately difficult the democratic system.

He stated that MLA is not only an individual, however she or he is the consultant of lakhs of individuals.

The legislator is dedicated to guard the pursuits of those individuals, he stated.

He stated the MLAs increase quite a lot of public points and in the event that they will get such threats, then they will be unable to fulfil their accountability correctly.

Gupta requested the highest officers of the police division to make sure the security of the general public representatives in any respect prices.

Earlier, Gupta had written a letter to Chief Minister Manohar Lal Khattar demanding to extend the safety of the MLAs who acquired risk calls.

Last month, BJP MLA Sanjay Singh had allegedly acquired an extortion name wherein the caller recognized himself as an affiliate of the Neeraj Bawana gang and demanded Rs 5 lakh.

According to a grievance later filed by Singh, he had additionally received an extortion message on WhatsApp on June 25.

Among the Congress MLAs, Safidon legislator Subhash Gangoli had on Friday lodged a grievance with the Haryana Police citing risk to his life.

He had said that he acquired a risk message demanding Rs 5 lakh on his cell from a Dubai quantity.

Congress MLA from Sonipat Surender Panwar too had earlier acquired a risk name from Dubai and the caller had demanded ransom from him.

On Friday, 5 males had allegedly barged into the Pataudi home of Badli’s Congress MLA Kuldeep Vats when he was not there and roughed up his cook dinner threatening to “set the legislator right like Sidhu Moosewala,” police had stated.

The cook dinner informed the police that the accused stated that he ought to warn Vats that the legislator shouldn’t make any feedback about gangsters or he’ll meet the destiny of Moosewala, the Punjabi singer who was shot useless by unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district on May 29.

Opposition Congress had hit out on the BJP-JJP authorities, with former Haryana chief minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda saying the legislation and order within the state had collapsed within the state.

Hooda had alleged that the state has develop into a protected haven for criminals now and the state of affairs is such that neither the widespread man nor the MLAs are protected.

Earlier on Friday, senior Congress chief Kumari Selja had met Haryana Governor Bandaru Dattatreya right here and knowledgeable him in regards to the legislators from the state receiving ‘threats’ within the latest weeks.

During the assembly, Selja urged the Governor to direct the state authorities to right away improve safety of those MLAs and nab the culprits on the earliest.