Saurabh Malik

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, March 17

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has refused to quash the FIR against a lieutenant in the British Army, Jagjit Singh Lahiri. Declared a proclaimed offender (PO), he is accused of “inciting youth to commit serious crimes such as eliminating certain religious heads”.In his plea before Justice Rajan Gupta, Lahiri’s counsel Anurag Chopra claimed that the petitioner went to London as a student before appearing in an examination for recruitment in the British Army where he was selected.The FIR was registered in October 2011 in Jalandhar under provisions of the Unlawful Activities Act, Arms Act and Section 120-B of the IPC.Chopra claimed that the investigation was carried out in an illegal manner. Referring to the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, his counsel contended that sanction, as envisaged by the legislation, was not obtained. State counsel Rajni Gupta contended that the allegations against the petitioner were serious; and he was declared a PO.