Faridkot, February 26
A special investigation team (SIT) of the police probing the Kotkapura police firing case of October 2015 filed another supplementary charge-sheet in the court here today.
In this fifth charge-sheet, containing 81 pages, the SIT presented a dossier of documents in the court to prove that a former head constable of Punjab Police, Rashpal Singh, was medically not fit to give his statement about the persons who had assaulted him on October 14, 2015, at Kotkapura during the clash between the protesters and police.
On August 28, last year, Rashpal, who was seriously injured in the Kotkapura firing incident, had moved an application in the court of the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMIC), Faridkot, to take cognisance of protesters who had attacked him with sharp-edged weapons.
In the present supplementary charge-sheet, the SIT quoted many medical reports, claiming that Rashpal was unable to write and speak in a coherent manner. The SIT claimed that in his two statements recorded earlier, Rashpal had claimed that he was assaulted by unknown persons. But in the application moved in the court on August 28, 2023, he had named 14 persons, accusing them of assaulting him. Interestingly, all these 14 persons are prime witnesses against the accused police officers in the Kotkapura police firing case, claimed SIT.
The latter has produced many medical reports and opinions of a panel of doctors and neuro-super specialists to raise question on the genuineness of the application moved on his behalf in the court here. One of these reports was prepared by a panel of three doctors, days after Rashpal’s application was filed in the court here.
SIT today presented the psychological profiling reports of some suspicious persons in the police firing case. These have been prepared by the National Forensic Sciences University, Gandhinagar. It has also presented in the court the ballistic opinion regarding the possibility of AK-47 bullet injuries to some victims. These reports have been prepared by the Director, Forensic Science Lab, Mohali.
Ex-cop unfit to give statement: SIT
- On August 28, last year, Rashpal, who was seriously injured in the Kotkapura firing incident, had moved an application in the court of the Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMIC), Faridkot, to take cognisance of protesters who had attacked him with sharp-edged weapons
- In the present supplementary charge-sheet, the SIT quoted many medical reports, claiming that Rashpal was unable to write and speak in a coherent manner
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