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OTKAPURA, BEHBAL POLICE FIRING IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh accuses Sukhbir Badal of derailing probe Submits affidavit in HC

IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh accuses Sukhbir Badal of derailing probe

Inspector General of Police and SIT member Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh. File photo

Faridkot, December 23

Inspector General of Police (IG) and SIT member Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, who is probing the Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan police firing, has expressed concern over how and under what circumstances the accused got a copy of the statement of the approver (Pardeep Singh) in the case.

In response to a petition in the HC by an accused, in which the IG’s removal from the SIT has been sought, Vijay Pratap has submitted an affidavit on December 20.

As the copy of the approver’s statement was not supplied by the prosecution so the accused has abused his official position or his seniors, who are accused in the case to get this document, alleged the IG. It shows that the high-profile accused are creating hindrances in the process of law, he alleged.

About his shifting by the ECI from the organised crime control unit in the run-up to the Lok Sahba poll in April 2019 and him filing the chargesheet against the accused of Kotkapura police firing during this time, the IG said it was backdoor but an unsuccessful attempt by Sukhbir Singh Badal, through one of his supporters to attract the jurisdiction of the ECI in a clandestine manner as his involvement

in firing as well as sacrilege cases had been precisely stated in the chargesheet.

Defending his act of writing a letter to the District and Sessions Judge, Faridkot, in June 2020, urging that a judicial officer should not be entrusted with “any part of the case at any stage” due to his alleged “family ties” with the Badal family, the IG submitted to the HC that it was based on inquiries and intelligence inputs that the judicial officer had close link with the Badal families, whose name have been specifically mentioned in the chargesheet. — TNS