Tanda: Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) President Sukhbir Singh Badal on Friday said the Congress government had made repeated changes in the heads of the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) and had now even changed the Acting DGP to coerce the new incumbents to implicate top SAD leaders in false cases.
Talking to newsmen here, the SAD President said “a lie is a lie; this is why top police officers are refusing to toe the Congress government’s directions to register false cases against top Akali workers. The government affected two changes in the top leadership of the BOI by first changing ADGP Arpit Shukla and then ADGP Varinder Kumar. Now the third incharge of BOI – ADGP S K Asthana has exposed the government by writing to the DGP and seeking directions as to how he can register any illegal case at the directions of the government”.
Asserting that senior most officers were not ready to become a party to political vendetta, Badal requested all officers to keep in mind that they should not get embroiled in the vendetta drive. “The law is the same for everyone and those who break it, whether an ordinary person or in uniform, will be hauled once the new SAD-BSP alliance government is formed”. He said the same fate would befall bureaucrats who were acting as political agents of the Congress party”.