Via PTI
SHIMLA: Himachal Pradesh Police on Wednesday arrested a person from Punjab for placing up Khalistan flags at the primary gate of the wintry weather state meeting in Dharamshala and scrawling slogans on its partitions, the state leader minister mentioned.
The person had allegedly tied the flags of the secessionist crew on Sunday — an act which was once condemned throughout celebration traces. Seek for a 2d accused is on and he’ll be stuck quickly, CM Jai Ram Thakur mentioned.
In a observation issued right here Wednesday, Thakur knowledgeable media in regards to the police leap forward which arrested one Harvir Singh from Punjab within the morning.
Singh has confessed to have post the Khalistani flag and vandalising the outer wall of the HP Vidhan Sabha advanced at Dharamshala with separatist slogans, he mentioned.
Thakur mentioned that the police whilst arresting Singh adopted all procedures and the guideline of legislation whole with an arrest warrant secured from a reliable courtroom.
The Himachal Pradesh Police had booked ‘Sikhs for Justice’ chief Gurpatwant Singh Pannun and had sealed the state’s borders in reaction. SFJ is an extremist crew primarily based in another country that has been challenging a separate Khalistan.