Punjab, Haryana Police Wear Brave Cop Harjeet Singh's Name On Chest In A Day-Long Campaign

In a day-long campaign called MainBhiHarjeetsingh, police personnel are expressing their support to Harejeet Singh whose hand was dismembered in an attack in Patiala on April 12.

Harjeet Singh

New Delhi:  In an act of solidarity for Punjab Sub Inspector Harjeet Singh, whose hand was chopped off by Nihangs in Patiala over a clash, Haryana Police and Punjab Police are wearing his nameplate on their chest. In a day-long campaign called #MainBhiHarjeetsingh, police personnel are expressing their support to Harjeet Singh whose hand was dismembered in an attack in Patiala on April 12. The personnel believes that Harjeet Singh has become a symbol against attacks on police and other frontline workers. Under the campaign, Haryana Police is also expressing solidarity for the courageous act of the sub-inspector by pinning up a badge with the name of Harjeet Singh instead of their own. Punjab DGP Dinkar Gupta also changed his name on the badge to 'Harjeet Singh' for today and took to Twitter to express his support.

Punjab chief minister Amarinder Singh also took to Twitter and updated a video sharing the status of braveheart Sub Inspector.  The video shows  Harjeet Singh’s in a recovery mode after two weeks of the operation. The chief ministers says, “I am extremely happy to share that he is recovering well and that his hand has started to regain movement.”

On April 12, SI Harjeet Singh’s hand was chopped off and two other police officials were injured when a group of people allegedly attacked them in Punjab’s Patiala district. A group of ''Nihangs'' (Sikhs armed with traditional weapons and dressed in loose blue top) were travelling in a vehicle and started attacking the policemen when they were asked to show their curfew passes, according to a PTI report. After the incident, Singh’s hand was successfully reimplanted in an eight-hour surgery by doctors at the PGI Hospital in Chandigarh. The Sub-Inspector is still recovering in the hospital. He was later promoted from Assitant Sub Inspector to Sub Inspector for his courageous act.