Punjab CM Amarinder Singh
The Aam Aadmi Party and the BJP on Saturday rejected the Punjab authorities’s decision to represent a brand new special investigation team to probe the 2015 Kotkapura firing incident, alleging that it was a ploy to defend the culprits and delay justice.
AAP’s state unit president and MP Bhagwant Mann stated the brand new SIT was shaped to mislead and cheat the general public.
“This was only a betrayal of the sentiments of the people of Punjab because if Amarinder Singh’s government was serious about this matter, it would have appealed against the quashing of the SIT probe to a double bench of the High Court,” he stated in a press release.
Mann alleged that the federal government is attempting to save lots of the accused within the case by intentionally dragging it for lengthy.
BJP nationwide common secretary Tarun Chugh charged the Amarinder Singh authorities with taking recourse to invasive strategies to defend folks chargeable for the desecration of the Guru Granth Sahib in Punjab’s Faridkot in 2015.
Chugh stated there isn’t a worldwide conspiracy within the case, for which an SIT is required.
“There have been a series of incidents of sacrilege of the Guru Granth Sahib following which the Kotkapura police firing incident took place for which simple magisterial or judicial inquiry should have sufficed but the chief minister is bent upon not letting justice come about,” he stated in a press release.
He questioned the propriety of forming yet one more police SIT to analyze the firing incident after the sooner SIT report was quashed by the Punjab and Haryana High Court and stated that the brand new SIT has been shaped to place all the matter in chilly retailer and let the perpetrator go scot-free.
He stated the chief minister was simply whiling away time with the formation of SITs and giving culprits an extended rope.
Congress MP Partap Singh Bajwa too requested the Punjab authorities to expedite the investigation and make sure the perpetrators are dropped at justice as quickly as attainable.
He stated the High Court has given a time-frame of six months in its order, which implies that the investigation needs to be concluded earlier than that. There isn’t any restriction on the state authorities to repair a time-frame of fewer than six months.
Given that there exists info from the earlier SIT, the federal government ought to move an order to repair a shorter time-frame, stated Bajwa in a press release.
Acting on the instructions of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Punjab authorities on Friday constituted a brand new three-member special investigation team (SIT) to probe the Kotkapura police firing incident, which happened throughout a protest towards the desecration of the spiritual textual content six years in the past in Punjab’s Faridkot.
The High Court had on April 9 quashed a report by an earlier Punjab Police SIT and directed the state authorities to arrange a brand new SIT.Â
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