Petition seeks CBI probe in NRI encounter

About four months after NRI Jaspreet Singh was allegedly killed in a false encounter, a plea was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Tuesday, seeking a time-bound CBI inquiry into the case under the HC supervision.

The petition was filed through advocate Navkiran Singh by Gurtej Singh Dhillon, brother-in-law of Col Pushpinder Singh Bath, who, along with his son, was “brutally beaten up by a police party outside Rajindra Hospital Patiala”.

The petition added that Col Bath’s family came to know that the police officials involved in the incident of beating up the serving officer and his son were the same who had killed the NRI in an encounter on March 13.

The police registered an FIR in which they showed that Jaspreet Singh, along with others, had allegedly kidnapped a minor. When the petitioner got to know about the false encounter, he approached the Jaspreet’s family and helped it in pursuing legal remedies as they were “not well placed in society and were under heavy pressure and threats for not pursuing legal remedies in the case of false encounter of their son”.