![]() ![]() A senior BSF officer said each BSF ‘hit’ team at the border that brings down a drone through rifle firing or using jamming technology is rewarded with a cash incentive of Rs 1 lakh. While in Punjab, as many as 133 drones coming from across the border were sighted by the BSF in 20, out of which 67 drones were sighted in 2021. Around 75% of sightings were in Punjab of the total drone activities reported along the western border this year. In 2021, around 104 drone activities were recorded and 77 in 2020. Some 311 drones were spotted in 2022 across the entire western border - Gujarat, Rajasthan, Punjab and Jammu and Kashmir. As many as 22 drones were brought down and captured (nine were shot down and another 13 fell due to various reasons).Īlso, while 221 drone activities were detected inside the Indian territory and 22 inside Pakistan. Sources said, of the 254 drones spotted in 2022, BSF troopers fired at these drones on 226 occasions. From January 2022, around 254 drones were sighted of which 22 were shot down by BSF. The government, however, refused to pay any attention to this plea for a CBI probe, the book further records.According to sources, there has been a fourfold spike in the number of drones being sighted in Punjab coming from Pakistan to deliver narcotics, weapons, explosives and ammunition. He also stated in his plea that Daya Singh’s death sentence had been commuted at the intervention of Devi Lal and noted that the closeness of the two indicated an underlying conspiracy. The book records that Gurinder Singh, the younger son of Kairon, made a plea before the government for a fresh probe into the murder of his father. “Daya Singh, now in his 80s, is still in touch with me,” Ravi Chautala adds.ĭevi Lal, who was the CM of Haryana twice from 1977 to 1979 and then again from 1987 to 89, served as Deputy PM of the country from 1989 to 1991 under VP Singh and Chandra Shekhar. Ravi Chautala, son of Devi Lal’s second son Partap Singh, however said Daya Singh came in touch only when his grandfather was jailed during Emergency in Rohtak where Kairon’s killer was also lodged.ĭaya Singh is from Manaksar village of Rajasthan and was a frequently visited Chaudhary Devi Lal because he served my grandfather inside the jail during Emergency. To suggest that my father had any personal enmity with Kairon is completely absurd,” says Ranjit Singh. Kairon had to resign after the commission submitted its report. On his complaint, an SR Das Commission of Inquiry under a retired Supreme Court judge was constituted. Ranjit Singh, a Cabinet Minister in Manohar Lal Khattar’s government, who is third of Devi Lal’s four sons, said, “I was studying in Government College, Chandigarh, in 1962, when my father, as a recognised Leader of Opposition in the Punjab Assembly, submitted a memorandum to the President against Kairon’s corruption. ![]() Terming this as a political conspiracy to malign Devi Lal’s family, Abhay Chautala adds that Gurinder Singh Kairon must have been fed by his (Chautala) family’s political opponents. ![]() Old-timers know it well that he and Kairon enjoyed good relations at a personal level,” maintains Abhay Singh, whose father Om Prakash Chautala, too, has served as CM of the state. Chaudhary Devi Lal was known for keeping political differences aside from personal relations. After all, Daya Singh was not a political person. “Our family never had any kind of relations with Daya Singh. “How could Chaudhary Devi Lal’s influence work on the Supreme Court of India?” asks Abhay Singh Chautala, Devi Lal’s grandson and an INLD MLA from Ellenabad. The death sentence was later converted to life term by the Supreme Court in April 1991 when Devi Lal was Deputy PM of the country. While three of the four assassins Sucha Singh, Baldev Singh and Nahar Singh were awarded capital punishment in 1970 and hanged to death, the fourth assassin Daya Singh could only be arrested in 1972 and was awarded death sentence in 1978. Kairon, who was Chief Minister of undivided Punjab for eight years (1956-64), was shot dead with three others on Februon Grand Trunk Road near Rai (Sonepat) while he was on his way from Delhi to Chandigarh. How could Chaudhary Devi Lal’s influence work on the Supreme Court of India? ![]()
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