The bayonet (a knife fixed on the front portion of a gun) has gone missing from the statue of Victoria Cross winner Jamadar (naib subedar) Nand Singh that is installed at the Fauji Chowk here.
No one knows since when the bayonet has been missing. The government apathy towards this martyr, who had been decorated with the highest honour awarded to the World War II warriors under the British rule, has been subjected to such desecration on earlier occasions also.
Despite strict instructions of the district administration, people do not hesitate from cluttering the rotary with publicity material of both social and political as well as festoons.
District administration officials said they had been repeatedly removing such publicity material, but to no avail.
