Chandigarh: The mortal remains of 31 of the 39 Indians killed in Iraq will arrive at
Amritsar International airport today in a special aircraft, said
officials.
The aircraft with the bodies of the 31 slain Indians,
who hailed from different places in Punjab and Himachal Pradesh, is
expected to reach Amritsar by 1:30 pm, they added.
In the
wake of a bandh called by a number of Dalit organizations today to
protest the alleged dilution of the SC/ST Act, Punjab Chief Minister
Captain Amarinder Singh has urged the protestors not to take the law in
their own hands and, in particular, not to impede rood and rail
transport in any way.
Amarinder has appealed to the protestors
to let the mortal remains of the Iraq victims be ferried to their native
villages without any hindrance.
He has also directed the Punjab
police to provide strict security for the same along the routes, from
the airport to the respective native villages of the victims.
Earlier this month, Swaraj had told Parliament that as many as 40
Indians were abducted by terror group ISIS from Mosul in Iraq in June
2014, but one of them escaped posing as a Muslim from Bangladesh.
The remaining 39 Indians were taken to Badoosh and killed, she had said.
PTI