Kotkapura police firing: In the newest replace to the 2015 Kotkapura police firing incident, a court in Punjab’s Faridkot Thursday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal. However, the court granted reduction to his father and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.
Last week, the Faridkot court obtained an utility for anticipatory bail from each Akali leaders. The court of extra district and periods choose, Faridkot, has deferred its choice following the listening to of arguments on March 14.
The court dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, stated one of his counsels Arshdeep Singh Cheema. However, the court granted anticipatory bail to the previous chief minister, Cheema stated.
Who all have been named in the case?
The former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal, his deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal, the previous DGP Sumedh Saini, and others have been named in a cost sheet offered in court in Faridkot by the Punjab Police Special Investigation Team.
Sukhbir Badal and Saini have been named as “masterminds of conspiracy for use of illegal excessive force to hide the inaction” of the state on three sacrilege incidents in Faridkot.
The then chief minister Badal was blamed for “facilitating the execution of the conspiracy” in the 7,000-page cost sheet.
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About Kotkapura police firing
The incidents associated to the theft of a ‘bir’ (copy) of the Guru Granth Sahib, placing up handwritten sacrilegious posters, and torn pages of the holy e-book being discovered scattered at Bargari in Faridkot in 2015. These incidents had triggered protests and two individuals –- Gurjeet Singh and Kishan Bhagwan Singh–were killed in Behbal Kalan and few injured at Kotkapura in Faridkot in police firing.
(With PTI inputs)
