Tribune News Service Chandigarh December 6 With the CBI getting permission for polygraph test of two suspects in the murder case of Sukhmanpreet Singh alias Sippy Sidhu the slain advocates kin see a ray of hope in the case. The CBI had moved an application to get the polygraph test conducted of two persons Simrandeep Singh Sandhu an advocate and Karampal Singh which was allowed by the special CBI court. Sippys mother Deepinder Kaur said she sees a ray of hope after a long wait. “We have been waiting for justice for the past five years. We are hopeful as the investigation is on the right track” Kaur said. Sippy a national-level shooter was shot dead on September 20 2015. A .12 bore gun was used in the crime and four bullets were fired from it. Though several persons including a Judges daughter who is a suspect in the case were questioned the police failed to nail the killers. Irked over the shoddy probe Sippys kin and friends staged several protests including near the Prime Ministers house in Delhi demanding an impartial probe. In January 2016 the case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) after which the investigating agency registered a murder case and began a probe. The role of a woman in Sippys murder cropped up during the CBI investigation. However they wanted to gather more clues following which around seven months later in September 2016 CBI sleuths announced a reward of Rs5 lakh for anybody providing a clue that could help crack the case. The CBI also gave a newspaper advertisement stating that “there is reason to believe that a woman was accompanying Sippys killer at the time of the murder. The said woman is also being given this opportunity to come forward and contact us if she is innocent. Otherwise it shall be presumed that she was a party to the offence”.

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