High Court orders constitution of new SIT

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, August 22

The Punjab and Haryana High Court has directed the city police to constitute a new Special Investigating Team (SIT), headed by a senior police official, to probe the murder of Gurkirat Singh (7).

Gurkirat was found murdered near his residence at Verka in November 2012. Even after five years, the city police are groping in the dark and failed to nab the culprits.

Justice HS Madaan asked the city police to constitute a new SIT within 10 days and submit its report to the court on September 20, which is the next date of hearing.

Angrej Singh, father of the deceased, had stated before the High Court that some suspects named by him were not interrogated properly. He said had the police interrogated the suspects, they could have got some clues.

Police officials told the court that they were ready to interrogate the suspects. Thereafter, the High Court ordered the constitution of an SIT.

Earlier, the High Court summoned the Deputy Commissioner of Police on August 17 as the family had filed a petition in the court demanding the case be transferred to the CBI. The family said the police had failed to make any breakthrough even after five years. The court expressed its displeasure over the slow investigation.

Gurkirat Singh, a resident Verka, had gone missing from outside his house in November 2012 under mysterious circumstances. Later, his body was found dumped at a secluded place a few metres away from the house.

Though the city police had formed a couple of investigating teams to crack the case, the probe hit a dead end every time.

The police had even got the polygraph tests of three suspects done from the forensic science laboratory at Madhuban in Haryana. However, nothing has come out of it. The investigations were even supervised by the then ADGP (crime). The SIT was reconstituted in 2015.