Sacrilege: SIT waits for stay to be vacated

  • | Tuesday | 15th January, 2019

The SIT also made queries at hospitals, where the injured were being treated. The IG added that a few days ago SIT had succeeded in identifying a person named as Tarunvir Singh of Patiala , who had taken Ajit to a Kotkapura hospital. BATHINDA: A special investigation team (SIT) probing the case of sacrilege at Bargari and killing of two protesters at Behbal Kalan village in Faridkot district in police firing, is waiting for the stay granted by the court to be vacated to complete its probe.Former Moga SSP Charanjit Sharma and some other police officials had got the stay from the high court for investigations against them. The SIT claimed that statements of these police officials were of paramount importance and they were waiting for it before winding up the probe.The team which started its job in October 2018 till now has examined or recorded the statements of 212 persons, including former CM Parkash Singh Badal, SAD president Sukhbir Badal and Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar and 36 policemen. As many persons who have deposed before SIT so far had pointed towards his role but his own statement is of paramount importance as till now we do not know as to whether he is a witness or an accused”.The IG said that SIT was investigating as to whether the bullets fired at protesters by the police had been tampered with or not and if yes, then at what level.“And if there is a need, then SIT can go in for lie detector test,” he said.

BATHINDA: A special investigation team (SIT) probing the case of sacrilege at Bargari and killing of two protesters at Behbal Kalan village in Faridkot district in police firing, is waiting for the stay granted by the court to be vacated to complete its probe.Former Moga SSP Charanjit Sharma and some other police officials had got the stay from the high court for investigations against them. The SIT claimed that statements of these police officials were of paramount importance and they were waiting for it before winding up the probe.The team which started its job in October 2018 till now has examined or recorded the statements of 212 persons, including former CM Parkash Singh Badal, SAD president Sukhbir Badal and Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar and 36 policemen. On Monday, it recorded the statement of a Patiala-based person, who had taken an injured Ajit Singh to a hospital after he was hit by a bullet in his thigh at Kotkapura in the wee hours of October 14, 2015.Member of SIT IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh told mediapersons in Faridkot on Monday that the investigations were at the concluding stage and they were “waiting for the statements of Charanjit Sharma and other police officials, who had got relief from court. As many persons who have deposed before SIT so far had pointed towards his role but his own statement is of paramount importance as till now we do not know as to whether he is a witness or an accused”.The IG said that SIT was investigating as to whether the bullets fired at protesters by the police had been tampered with or not and if yes, then at what level.“And if there is a need, then SIT can go in for lie detector test,” he said. The IG added that a few days ago SIT had succeeded in identifying a person named as Tarunvir Singh of Patiala , who had taken Ajit to a Kotkapura hospital. The SIT also made queries at hospitals, where the injured were being treated.

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