A group of Nihangs chopped off a policeman’s hand and injured two others in Punjab’s Patiala district. The police said that the group of four-five Nihangs (Sikhs armed with traditional weapons and dressed in blue) attacked the policemen when they were asked to show the curfew pass. They were subsequently arrested by the police from a nearby gurdwara. A huge cache of weapons including some hand held weapons, such as ‘barchhe’ and ‘kirpans’, and some used cartridges were seized from the accused, in addition to two petrol bombs and LPG cylinders, five bags of poppy husk mixed with ‘sulpha’, other drugs in commercial quantity and Rs 39 lakhs in cash. Some bottles with chemical substances were also found from the premises.
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