The police announced monetary rewards for those who can provide information on Punjabi actor-activist Deep Sidhu and others named as accused.
After the violence that unfolded inside the Red Fort complex on Republic Day amid the farmers’ protest, Delhi Police has now stepped up its probe. The police announced monetary rewards for those who can provide information on Punjabi actor-activist Deep Sidhu and others named as accused.
Rs 50,000 reward was announced by Delhi police for leads that could lead to the arrest of Jagbir Singh, Buta Singh, Sukhdev Singh and Iqbal Singh, for their alleged involvement in last Tuesday’s violence. The Police also announced Rs 1 lakh reward for leads on Deep Sidhu and three others.
The role of a Punjabi actor Deep Sidhu and his accomplices, after clashes during a farmers’ tractor protest on Republic Day, had come under scrutiny. Once known to be close to movie star-turned-BJP MP Sunny Deol, Deep Sidhu was last seen at Red Fort, which became the epicentre of the chaos that descended upon Delhi.
Farmers protesting at the Delhi borders had accused him and people who he tagged along of planting the “Nishan Sahib” or Sikh religious flag at the Red Fort, an act that has provoked outrage, especially on social media. Visuals of protestors storming into the Mughal-era monument with sticks and flags had drawn criticism even from those who backed the farmers’ agitation.
Deep Sidhu, after being criticised for inciting a section of farmers to defy the path promised for tractor march and leading the parade to Red Fort, posted a video on Facebook on R-day evening, in which he defended their act saying the protesters did not remove the national flag but put up the “Nishan Sahib” as a symbolic protest.
Claiming that it was a spontaneous act, Sidhu had said: “To symbolically register our protest against the new farm legislation, we put up ‘Nishan Sahib’ and a farmer flag and also raised the slogan of Kisan Mazdoor Ekta.” The national flag was not removed from the flagpole at the Red Fort, Sidhu asserted.
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