Police use water cannons, tear gas on people protesting closure report in sacrilege cases
Police used tear gas and water canons on Monday to disperse people protesting against the CBI's closure report in the 2015 Faridkot sacrilege incidents.
Protesting on the Mohali-Chandigarh boundary, they had tried to cross the barricades.
The protesters, who carried black flags, said they wanted to march towards the CBI office in Chandigarh and submit a memorandum.
Police said nearly 150 people protested on the Mohali-Chandigarh border.
No protester was detained, a police official said.
Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh had last week accused the Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) of "shedding crocodile tears" over the desecration of religious texts in 2015, asserting that his government would take the matter to its logical end.
Singh had made the statement on July 17, a day after SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal said they would challenge the CBI's closure report filed in a Mohali court.
Badal had also vowed to take "all legal, constitutional and political steps" to get the probe by the ...