By PTI
CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Friday turned down the Punjab authorities’s request of not giving BJP chief Tajinder Pal Singh Bagga’s custody to the Delhi Police and maintain him in Haryana.
The courtroom will now hear the matter on Saturday.
The Punjab authorities had moved a habeas corpus petition within the High Court on Friday.
Bagga’s counsel Chetan Mittal raised a query on his arrest by the Punjab Police and likewise requested how the state authorities may file a habeas corpus in opposition to Haryana.
In a high-voltage drama, a Delhi Police group took the custody of Bagga in Kurukshetra after Punjab cops arrested him from his residence within the nationwide capital on Friday.
The Punjab Police group was stopped in Kurukshetra’s Pipli, with a Haryana Police official saying they acquired info that Bagga was “forcibly” picked up from his residence.
In the petition, the Punjab authorities accused the Haryana and the Delhi Police of illegally detaining its police officers on the Delhi’s Janakpuri police station and in Kurukshetra.
Additional Solicitor General of India Satya Pal Jain, who appeared on behalf of the Delhi Police, stated the Punjab authorities made a request to the courtroom that the custody of Bagga shouldn’t be handed over to the Delhi Police.
It demanded that both Bagga be handed over to the state police or be detained the place he was, stated Jain.
“The court did not accept the request and also did not pass any interim order,” Jain instructed PTI.
Jain additionally rejected the cost of the Punjab Police that their officers have been detained by the Delhi Police.
“We told the court that we have not apprehended, arrested or detained any police officer anywhere in Delhi,” stated Jain.
Jain stated an FIR of Bagga’s kidnapping was lodged on the grievance of his father in Delhi after some “unknown” individuals got here to their home and misbehaved with the members of the family.
After the FIR was lodged, the Delhi Police obtained a search warrant from the Dwarka district courtroom, stated Jain.
“The FIR lodged by the Delhi Police and search warrant issued by Dwarka district court, we have submitted both these to the High Court. We also submitted before the High Court that the Delhi Police has not arrested any Punjab Police official or detained anyone. Two or three Punjab police officials are in the Janakpuri police station and sitting on their own will,” Jain later instructed reporters outdoors the courtroom.
The info associated to the search warrant was flashed by the Delhi Police within the area, after which the Haryana Police stopped a automobile at Pipli in Haryana wherein Bagga was being taken by some individuals in plain garments, stated Jain.
Thereafter, the search warrant was executed and the Delhi police took again Bagga to the nationwide capital, stated Jain.
“We told the court that if a police officer of any state goes in the jurisdiction of any other state to make an arrest they have to give intimation to them. But Punjab Police did not involve Delhi Police nor gave them any prior information. So, the Delhi Police had no information why he was arrested and by whom,” Jain stated.
Punjab Advocate General Anmol Rattan Sidhu stated the state police adopted a correct process for making the arrest whereas accusing the Delhi and Haryana Police of illegally detaining its officers.
“A proper FIR has been registered against Bagga. He has not filed any anticipatory bail. We gave him proper notice to join the investigation on five occasions but he disobeyed and did not come,” Sidhu stated.
“We sent the team to his house and a team also went to the Janakpuri police station. Deputy Superintendent of Police Kuljinder Singh was still sitting there along with his team for giving intimation since morning but the Delhi Police did not record it,” claimed Sidhu.
The Punjab AG stated the police videographed all occasions, together with Bagga’s arrest from his residence.
“None of our police personnel pushed any family member as is being alleged,” stated Sidhu.
“Everything is digital recorded. We brought him in a proper way,” stated Sidhu.
“But when the Punjab police team was on its way back, the Haryana Police in connivance with Delhi Police stopped our police team. Three SPs and one IG along with the accused were taken to the Pipli police station,” he stated.
“We had no other option, but to move habeas corpus in the High Court,” stated Sidhu.
After the Punjab police officers have been detained, the Delhi police received Bagga launched from our authorized custody contained in the Pipli police station, Sidhu alleged.
On search warrants, Sidhu stated they are going to inform the courtroom that he was below our arrest.
Bagga’s counsel and senior advocate Chetan Mittal accused the Punjab Police of attempting to venture as if Bagga was a terrorist.
Mittal stated Punjab filed a habeas corpus in opposition to State of Haryana as a result of they knew Bagga was illegally picked.
“We will show it is totally illegal custody. How can the State of Punjab file habeas corpus,” requested Mittal.
A counsel representing Haryana stated,”We told the court that it was not an illegal detention. VT (wireless) message was flashed by the Delhi Police in the morning regarding the abduction of Bagga. We told the court that on the basis of that, intimation was flashed in all districts of Haryana.”