Punjab Police withdraws security cover of advisors of ex-CM Amarinder Singh, his wife

CHANDIGARH: Punjab Police has immediately withdrawn the security cover of former advocate general Atul Nanda and 19 advisors and OSDs of former chief minister Amarinder Singh as well as his wife and Patiala MP Preneet Kaur on Wednesday.


In a letter issued from the office of ADGP security on Wednesday morning, it was made clear, “Any personnel who fail to report by given time be marked absent and further departmental action be initiated accordingly.” The ADGP’s office sought the compliance report from the concerned commissioners of police and SSPs for the security provided to the protectees residing in Punjab and from the commandant of the 82nd battalion of Punjab Armed Police at Chandigarh for the protectees residing in Chandigarh by 11 am on Wednesday itself.

Those whose security has been withdrawn include Patiala MP Preneet Kaur’s OSD Honey Sekhon, Amarinder’s advisors Lt Gen TS Shergill (retd.) (senior advisor),

Raveen Thukral

(media advisor), Bharat Inder

Singh Chahal

(media advisor) and Khubi Ram (security advisor). Others in the list are former IAS officer Suresh Kumar (chief principal secretary), PCS officer and OSD GS Sodhi, political secretaries Parminder

Pal Singh Mann

and Gurmehar Singh Sekhon, and press secretary

Vimal Sumbly

.

Amarinder’s other OSDs who lost their security cover include Major Amardeep Singh (retd.) at Patiala,

Sandeep Singh Brar

(Faridkot), Damanjit Singh Mohi (Ludhiana), Gurpreet Singh Dhesi (Jalandhar), Sandeep Singh Sandhu (Amritsar), Ankit Bansal (Ludhiana), Jagdeep Singh Sidhu (Kharar), Karanbir Singh (Jalandhar), and

Narinder Bhambri

(New Delhi).

Amarinder had submitted his resignation as chief minister on September 18 and after the new chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi had taken over on September 20, he had directed the DGP to prune his security cover besides reviewing the security detail of other protectees so as to put the police on required assignments.

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