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Updated On: 05 August, 2009 07:51 AM IST | | Shashank Shekhar
Local goons are posting blood-soaked letters, pieces of bones, and strands of hair to threaten him, alleges this 79-year-old journalist. He blames a police-builder nexus
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Local goons are posting blood-soaked letters, pieces of bones, and strands of hair to threaten him, alleges this 79-year-old journalist. He blames a police-builder nexus
Amrik Singh Layallpuri, editor of an Urdu weekly, has been a witness to the horrors of the Partition. But, what he is going through now is, according to him, scarier.
Apart from the regular articles and letters in the neatly-written Persian script, the veteran journalist is receiving parts of human bones, letters soaked in blood, witchcraft props like human hair and vermillion marked horoscopes since May 31. All this, for standing up against the local builders and the "conniving" police, alleges Singh.
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Defiant: Amrik Singh Layallpuri in his house at Kashmere Gate |
The 79-year-old Singh brings out 'Lalkaar', an Urdu daily. He got into the bad books of local builders after he objected to "illegal" constructions in buildings around his house and complained against them. "The police refused to register my complaint and threatened me instead," alleges Singh. He approached the then Joint Commissioner (Special Cell) Karnal Singh, on whose orders a case was registered in the Kashmere Gate police station. "That's why even the local police turned against me."
However, the charge was refuted by the then Station House Officer of the Kashmere Gate police station Arun Kumar. "He was into this habit of registering arbitrary complaints against a number of people. The charges are baseless," he told MiD DAY.
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