Sukhbir Badal seems earlier than SIT probing Kotkapura police firing case
SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Saturday appeared earlier than a particular investigation crew (SIT) probing the 2015 Kotkapura police firing incident. Badal reached the Punjab Police Officers Institute at Sector 32 right here at round 11 am following a summons by the SIT.
Badal was the deputy chief minister and holding the house portfolio when incidents of desecration of spiritual texts and the next police firing at individuals protesting towards it had taken place in Faridkot in 2015.
#Post sacrilege firing case: Ex. deputy CM. Sukhbir Singh Badal reached at Punjab police officer institute to hitch the investigation of the 2015 kotkapura firing case, in Sector 32, Chandigarh on Saturday, June 26 2021.@iepunjab @IndianExpress pic.twitter.com/cZ3GdocBA5
— ਜਸਬੀਰ ਸਿੰਘ ਮੱਲ੍ਹੀ 📸 Jasbir Singh Malhi (@JasbirMalhi1) June 26, 2021
Several senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leaders, together with Bikram Singh Majithia, Balwinder Singh Bhundar, N Okay Sharma and Daljit Singh Cheema, reached the Punjab Police Officers Institute in a present of help to Badal.
On Tuesday, the SIT led by Additional Director General of Police (Vigilance Bureau) L Okay Yadav had questioned Shiromani Akali Dal patriarch and former Punjab chief minister Parkash Singh Badal for two-and-a-half hours.
The Punjab authorities had fashioned the brand new SIT to probe the Kotkapura police firing incident following the instructions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court.
The new SIT is investigating the 2 FIRs registered on October 14, 2015 and August 7, 2018 in reference to the Kotkapura incident.
The excessive court docket had on April 9 this 12 months quashed a report by an earlier Punjab Police SIT into the firing at individuals protesting in Kotkapura in 2015 over the alleged desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in Faridkot district.
Police had additionally opened hearth at an analogous demonstration in Behbal Kalan, additionally in Faridkot, the place two individuals had been killed. A separate probe is underway in that case.
Meanwhile, Congress chief Navjot Singh Sidhu on Saturday slammed Sukhbir Singh Badal and mentioned the brand new SIT “inches closer to justice for Punjab’s soul.”
Sidhu tweeted, “6 Yrs since sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib Ji.. No Justice in 2 yrs of your rule.. No Justice in the following 4.5 yrs.. Today, New SIT inches closer to Justice for Punjab’s Soul & you cry of political interferance.. Political interference was that which delayed Justice by 6 yrs.”
6 Yrs since sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib Ji.. No Justice in 2 yrs of your rule.. No Justice within the following 4.5 yrs.. Today, New SIT inches nearer to Justice for Punjab’s Soul & you cry of political interferance.. Political interference was that which delayed Justice by 6 yrs https://t.co/6SltTwK75M
— Navjot Singh Sidhu (@sherryontopp) June 26, 2021
Sidhu tagged the tweet of Sukhbir Singh Badal by which the previous deputy chief minister accused Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh of implicating the SAD management in false instances on the alleged occasion of Congress chief Rahul Gandhi.
“While farmers suffer, CM is busy keeping Gandhi family happy & has accepted @RahulGandhi’s directive to implicate SAD leadership in false cases. New SIT formed after old one was indicted over political interference, is being run by state vigilance dept,so nothing has changed,” Sukhbir had mentioned in a tweet on Friday.
