SIT to tighten noose on SP for fabricating bullet marks
Balwant Garg
Tribune News Service
Faridkot, February 22
Probing the fabrication of 18 marks of gun pellets on the escort Gypsy of former Moga SSP Charanjit Singh Sharma, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of Punjab Police has found out that the marks were made at the residence of an advocate on the evening of October 14, 2015. An SP-rank police officer used a .12 bore gun of a private security guard of his close friend, a car dealer, for the purpose, it has been found.
While the advocate and the private security guard of the car dealer are already in SIT’s custody, the investigating agency is now preparing to tighten the noose around the SP-rank officer, sources revealed.
Known for his connections with Akali leaders and police officers, this advocate was earlier in the centre of a controversy for taking illegal control of a private educational institution in Faridkot. Some days ago, Sanjay Popli, the then Special Secretary to Punjab Government, Department of Home Affairs, Justice and Jails, had asked the Divisional Commissioner, Faridkot division, to make a time-bound fact-finding inquiry into the allegations.
The complainant in this case is Amarjit Singh Marwah, a 90-year-old California-based dentist. President of the India America Society, Mahatma Gandhi Memorial Foundation, Coordinating Council of India Association and Bombay Los Angeles Sisters City Committee and former director of State Bank of India, Los Angeles, and Bank of Punjab, India, Marwah claimed that his family had invested more than Rs 13 crore in Punjab to improve infrastructure in government schools, provide scholarships to underprivileged children and improve health facilities at villages. But due to the political connections of the advocate, he was unable to get the control of a government school from him, Marwah rued.
Besides linking the sequence of making of the gun marks on the Gypsy, the SIT is also focusing on the use of private and illegal weapons in handling the protesters at Behbal Kalan on October 14, 2015, in which two persons were killed and many others were injured.
Denying firing at the protesters, the accused police officials claimed that a bullet taken out from the thigh of Beant Singh, the complainant in the FIR against police officials, was of 7.62 MM, which is a bullet of AK 47, whereas the accused officials were having 9 MM pistol. Moreover, Pardeep Singh, an accused inspector, had deposited his weapon along with total cartridges issued to him and there was no shortage of cartridge, they claimed.
Behbal Kalan killing
- The SIT of Punjab Police has found out that the marks were made at the residence of an advocate on the evening of October 14, 2015. An SP-rank police officer used a .12 bore gun of a private security guard of his close friend, a car dealer, for the purpose, it has been found.
- The probe is also focusing on the use of private and illegal weapons in handling the protesters at Behbal Kalan
