Sippy murder case: Kalyani seeks documents CBI relied on to file 'untrace report'

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, June 20

A local court issued a notice to the CBI for June 21 on an application moved by Kalyani Singh, an accused in the murder case of Sukhmanpreet Singh Siddhu, alias Sippy Sidhu, for supplying relevant documents.

Electronic evidence

Her counsel has requested the court to direct the CBI investigating officer to supply the applicant with the statements of all witnesses recorded under section 161 of the CrPC as also all electronic evidence available with him in a pen drive.

Kalyani, in her application filed through counsel NK Nanda, prayed the court to issue necessary directions to the CBI to supply the copies of all documents and electronic records relied upon by the prosecution/CBI in order to submit the untrace report.

Nanda told the court that that he had applied for a certified copy of the complete untrace report but was supplied with only a copy of the untrace report along with a list of witnesses. The copies of the statements of the witnesses were not available in the court file. The same have not been supplied to the applicant, nor has any other record, including the electronic data relied upon by the CBI, been made available to the applicant.

He requested the court to direct the CBI investigating officer to supply the applicant with the statements of all witnesses recorded under section 161 of the CrPC as also all electronic evidence available with him in a pen drive.

Nanda said it was necessary for the applicant to go through the records of the case which were part of the untrace report already filed to the court, and are thus no longer privy to the investigating agency.

Kalyani was arrested on June 15 after she was called to join the investigation by the CBI in the morning. Sippy Sidhu, an advocate, was shot dead at a park in Sector 27 here on the night of September 20, 2015. The police had registered a case against an unknown person. But the police could not solve the case.

The case was transferred to the CBI in 2016. After investigating the case for six years, the CBI also failed to find the killer and filed an untrace report in December 2020. But the report was not accepted by the court due to ambiguity in it. The CBI submitted that despite a thorough investigation, the agency could not gather sufficient evidence against the accused and she had not been charged in the case. It had also requested directions under Section 173 (8) of the CrPC to continue further investigation.

The court permitted the CBI to continue further investigation into the case and also directed it to file a final report after its conclusion.

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