nakodar sikh groups on sunday staged a dharna outside nakodar police station demanding registration of a case against a group of youths who attacked a workshop during punjab bandh call given by valmiki groups on saturday after which the owners opened fire and one of the protesters was injured those staging dharna said that the workshop owners fired in selfdefence only when the violent protesters entered their premises and cornered them the dharna was started by sikh talmel committee jalandhar and guru granth sahib satkar committee shahkot and other local sikh groups joined it later and it continued for a couple of hours they sat just outside the gate of the police station and demanded that a case should be registered against those who indulged in violence and attacked the workshop owners the police on saturday arrested brothers nirvail singh and pushpinder singh the shutter of the workshop was half down two young women who had come from himachal pradesh to pay obeisance at the shrine of murad shah were frightened looking at the mob and they entered the shop to seek protection as the shutter was half open the mob followed them inside and attacked the workshop the family of the workshop owners was also inside as their residence was at the back side of the workshop it was only a desperate situation in which the workshop owners opened fire in self defence said sukhjeet singh khosa who heads the guru granth sahib satkar committee he argued that the workshop was closed and no work was being carried out talmel committee leader harpal singh chadha said that the arrested brothers were not at fault and the police did not register any case against the violent mob which entered the workshop after two women sought protection there and later attacked the brothers in their workshopwhen senior police officers who came to the police station to talk to the protesters said that they were investigating leaders of sikh groups served an ultimatum to the police till september 10 for registering a case against the mobsters after which they would announce further course of action they said that they had already coordinated with the sikh groups across the statemeanwhile it is learn that police officials are finding themselves in catch22 situation and they want to wait for the recovery of the injured youth who has already undergone surgery before taking any further actionbox govt to bear expenses jalandhar dc varinder sharma and commissioner of police gurpreet singh bhullar visited the injured youth at global hospital where injured gurpreet gopi is undergoing treatment and announced that the state government would bear expenses of his treatment they said that he was out of danger