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| Gill asks Pak-based Khalistani ultras to surrender | | | Agencies
AMRITSAR, May 05:
The Punjab DGP P S Gill today brushed aside the apprehensions as regards the revival of militancy in Punjab and asked the Pak-based Khalistani militants to return and surrender.
Several Khalistani militants, including Paramjit Singh Panjwar, Wadhawa Singh Babbar and Ranjit Singh Neeta, were hiding in Pakistan and some other countries.
The DGP asked all of them to return to India and surrender before authorities as per the existing policies of the Centre and the state. All of them had committed heinous crimes in Punjab during the height of militancy. Following police pressure on them, they had fled to Pakistan and some other countries to save their skin.
The surrender of militants had taken place many times in the past and the same process could be followed now, he told reporters here today.To a question, the DGP said he did not foresee revival of terrorism in Punjab, adding no naxal elements or terrorists were present in Punjab now.
There were some "sleeping naxal elements" in Punjab but these were harmless, he said adding the police were keeping a vigil on them.Gill said in 1969, naxals were crushed by the Punjab police and "they can't dare to raise their heads again in the state".
On the killing of 2 Punjab police personnel and an equal number of militants in a gunbattle last month in border district of Gurdaspur, he said the entire area was searched thoroughly after the gunfight."No more militant is present or hiding there," Gill said.
He claimed that the two slain militants had come to India from Pakistan via Jammu and Kashmir and were yet to be identified. Gill said some mischievous elements were behind the low-intensity blast in Amritsar recently and they would be arrested soon.
On infiltration and smuggling of drugs from across the border, the DGP attributed this to the porous border. He said the BSF had heightened vigil along the border to curb such activities.
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