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Parties seek harsh punishment for Vienna culprits

Punjab Riots
Chandigarh, May 26: While the state of Punjab seems to be slowly cooling down, an all party meeting attended by SAD-BJP, Congress, CPI, CPM, BSP, and Shiv Sena parties urged the Centre to take steps to bring the guilty in the Vienna shootout which claimed the life of a Sikh preacher.

The meeting convened by Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal has urged the Centre to accelerate parleys with its Austrian counterpart to give rigorous punishment to the culprits. The Chief minister Badal strongly condemned the incident and called for a two-minute silence as a mark of respect for Sant Rama Nand and those killed in protests.

In this meeting a unanimous resolution was passed seeking stringent punishment for those responsible behind the crime.

Addressing the media after the meeting, Badal informed that he would take up the issue with the Foreign Affairs Minister SM Krishna on Tuesday, May 26.

Badal also appealed to the people of the state to maintain peace and communal harmony and compensation to those who were killed was announced.

"The government will compensate those whose private properties have been damaged in the backlash and next of the kin of three killed in violent protests," he said.

On the other hand, the former Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh on Tuesday, May 26 sought a judicial probe into the incident, and accused the state government of doing nothing in this matter.

ANI

Punjab: Curfew relaxed, situation still tense

Jalandhar, May 26: District authorities allowed relaxation of Curfew that was imposed on parts of states on Monday, May 25 following violent protests over the death of a Sikh Guru in Vienna. Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Hoshiarpur and Phagwara towns will continue under curfew, the authorities informed. The curfew however, will be relaxed for two to four hours.Even though the curfew has been relaxed the situation across the state, especially the central part seems tense. Additional army, police and paramilitary.....
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Singh 27 May 2009 07:07 am
What happened in Vienna is none of our business. Their laws will take care of it. To begin with the guilty in Punjab need to be punished.
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