<p>Seven people, including five Nihang Sikhs, were arrested from a gurdwara in Punjab on Sunday, hours after an attack on a police team in Patiala in which an assistant sub inspector’s hand was chopped off, police said.</p>.<p>The seven people included five who were allegedly part of the attack outside a wholesale vegetable market in Patiala early on Sunday morning, officials said.</p>.<p>With a lockdown in place, barricades were put up outside the market and police personnel were regulating entry by asking for curfew passes.</p>.<p><a href="www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/coronavirus-lockdown-nihangs-attack-policemen-in-punjab-asis-hand-chopped-off-824365.html"><strong>Also Read: Coronavirus Lockdown: 'Nihangs' attack policemen in Punjab, ASI's hand chopped off</strong></a></p>.<p>A group of four-five 'Nihangs' (a sect of Sikhs whose members are armed with traditional weapons and dressed in loose blue robes) were travelling in a vehicle and were asked to stop at a vegetable market by officials of the ‘mandi’ around 6.15 am, police said.</p>.<p>"They were asked to show (curfew) passes. But they banged the vehicle against the gate and barricades put up there," Senior Superintendent of Police, Patiala, Mandeep Singh Sidhu said.</p>.<p>The attackers fled to Balbera close by and were arrested from a gurdwara there, police said. </p>
<p>Seven people, including five Nihang Sikhs, were arrested from a gurdwara in Punjab on Sunday, hours after an attack on a police team in Patiala in which an assistant sub inspector’s hand was chopped off, police said.</p>.<p>The seven people included five who were allegedly part of the attack outside a wholesale vegetable market in Patiala early on Sunday morning, officials said.</p>.<p>With a lockdown in place, barricades were put up outside the market and police personnel were regulating entry by asking for curfew passes.</p>.<p><a href="www.deccanherald.com/national/north-and-central/coronavirus-lockdown-nihangs-attack-policemen-in-punjab-asis-hand-chopped-off-824365.html"><strong>Also Read: Coronavirus Lockdown: 'Nihangs' attack policemen in Punjab, ASI's hand chopped off</strong></a></p>.<p>A group of four-five 'Nihangs' (a sect of Sikhs whose members are armed with traditional weapons and dressed in loose blue robes) were travelling in a vehicle and were asked to stop at a vegetable market by officials of the ‘mandi’ around 6.15 am, police said.</p>.<p>"They were asked to show (curfew) passes. But they banged the vehicle against the gate and barricades put up there," Senior Superintendent of Police, Patiala, Mandeep Singh Sidhu said.</p>.<p>The attackers fled to Balbera close by and were arrested from a gurdwara there, police said. </p>