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Chandigarh: Newspaper deliveries were delayed at some places in Punjab on Sunday morning after police conducted vehicle checks, particularly commercial transports, during the intervening night of Saturday-Sunday.

Even though Punjab Police clarified that it undertook checking of vehicles carrying various items following specific intelligence inputs, Opposition parties hit out at the AAP government.

“Raids on newspaper delivery vans across Punjab are a chilling attack on press freedom,” Leader of Opposition and Congress veteran Partap Singh Bajwa alleged in a post on X.

Punjab BJP working president Ashwani Sharma termed it “undeclared Emergency by Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann in Punjab”, claiming that panicked by the Sheesh Mahal 2.0 news, the AAP government attacked the media.

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