Chandigarh, : Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh has lambasted his Haryana counterpart Manohar Lal Khattar for questioning<\/p>\n
the role of the Punjab police in the Honeypreet Insaan case.<\/p>\n
Reacting strongly to the Haryana chief minister\u2019s reported statements alleging Punjab police complicity in the matter, Captain Amarinder asked<\/p>\n
Khattar to refrain from such fabrications to shield his own government\u2019s failure in the Dera Sacha Sauda case.<\/p>\n
After trying unsuccessfully to pin the blame for the Panchkula violence on the Punjab government, Khattar was now trying, once again, to divert<\/p>\n
public attention from the total collapse of the law and order that had gripped Haryana since the day Dera chief Ram Rahim was found guilty on<\/p>\n
rape charges, said Captain Amarinder.<\/p>\n
Categorically rejecting any involvement of the Punjab government or any of its institutions in the entire episode, leading up to the arrest of<\/p>\n
Honeypreet, the Punjab Chief Minister said if the state police had any information about Honeypreet they would definitely have shared the<\/p>\n
same with the Haryana police.<\/p>\n
Captain Amarinder pointed out that reports, in fact, suggested that some senior Haryana police officer\/(s) had known of Honeypreet\u2019s<\/p>\n
whereabouts for several days but had failed to arrest her. Instead of probing his own officials\u2019 role in the entire affair, Khattar was simply trying<\/p>\n
to shift focus to Punjab, as he had done in the wake of the Panchkula violence, said Captain Amarinder.<\/p>\n
The Punjab chief minister trashed Khattar\u2019s charges that the Punjab police failed to give intelligence inputs on Honeypreet to the police in the<\/p>\n
neighbouring state. The Punjab police had been giving regular inputs to their counterparts in Haryana even before the Panchkula court hearing<\/p>\n
in the Ram Rahim case, said Captain Amarinder, adding that the Haryana government and police had failed to take cognizance or act on the<\/p>\n
information.<\/p>\n
The chief minister made it clear that while the Punjab police had not been pursuing Honeypreet since she was not wanted in any case in the<\/p>\n
state, there was no question of shielding the `adopted daughter\u2019 of rape convict Ram Rahim. He urged Khattar to focus on taking the case to its<\/p>\n
logical conclusion and on maintaining law and order in Haryana instead of wasting his time and energy in concocting false charges against the<\/p>\n
Punjab government and police.<\/p>\n
It may be recalled that Punjab Police has even earlier ruled out any knowledge about Honeypreet, scotching all reports suggesting otherwise.<\/p>\n
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