Capt Amarinder moves adjournment motion in Lok Sabha over Moga incident

Chandigarh, May 5: Congress Deputy Leader Capt Amarinder Singh today moved an adjournment motion in the Lok Sabha seeking discussion on the collapse of law and order situation in Punjab in the backdrop of recent incident of molestation and pushing down of a Dalit girl from a running Orbit bus owned by the Badals, that led to her death.Making a strong point in the Lok Sabha during the Zero Hour, Capt Amarinder asserted that Punjab was a fit case for the President’s rule as the law and order had collapsed and it was only the “Badal Parivar ki Beopar Sarkar” there.He listed several instances, at least ten, involving the buses of Orbit Aviation owned by the ruling Badal family and all the culprits going scot-free. He said, the Moga incident where a Dalit girl was molested and pushed off from an Orbit bus was the culmination of all these incidents. He said, Badals owning the Orbit Aviations, which operates a fleet of about 500 buses, half of them illegally, was a clear case of conflict interest.
Giving the breakup of the incidents involving the Orbit buses, he said, in April 2011 a motorcycle borne youth was killed after being hit by bus of Orbit Transport (Now Orbit Aviations) company in Sangrur. No action has been taken till date, he said.He said, In May 2012, a young man of 26 years of age was mowed down at Sanhera village of Barnala by the bus of Orbit transport company and no action has been taken by the police.In another incident, he disclosed that on Feb 16 2014 an Orbit bus killed 2 people near Harigarh village Patiala and still no action has been taken.On March 30, 2014: Orbit transport company bus crushed a scooterist and petrol pump owner Rakesh Kumar to death in Barnala and again no action was taken.In yet another incident in May 16 2014, Ashutosh Singh S/o AIG prisons J.P. Singh was crushed under an Orbit bus in Ludhiana. Action was initiated only after 10days of protest by the people but no arrests were made.On April 29 2015 the staff of Orbit bus company molested a teenaged Dalit girl Arshdeep Kaur and pushed her, her mother and her brother off the speeding bus killing the girl on the spot and critically injuring the mother and the brother.