THE POLICE have arrested 28-year old Harjeet Singh, alias Pargat, who was supplying fuel for the tractors of protesters participating in Quami Insaaf Morcha without paying fuel charges of Rs 26,500 at a Sector 55 fuel station, from near his native village of Marauli Khurd in Ropar on Sunday.
Police said Harjeet Singh belongs to an agriculturist family and had visited the Quami Insaaf Morcha protest site at Mattour for a couple of times. Police said Harjeet was earlier involved in two cases of attack on the police personnel in Morinda city near Ropar during 2019 and 2022. Harjeet was remanded in one-day police custody and one of his accomplices was identified. He is married and the father of one child.
