Bargari sacrilege case witnesses appear in court

faridkot, June 11

As part of its probe into sacrilege incidents, the new special investigation team (SIT) of the Punjab Police today produced two witnesses in the court of Judicial Magistrate here in connection with the alleged pasting of blasphemous posters at Burj Jawahar Singh Wala and scattering of pages (angs) of a stolen ‘bir’ at Bargari.

Those produced included Gopal Krishan, a shopkeeper of Bargari, from whom the paper and pen were allegedly purchased by the accused and Yadwinder Singh of Dhilwan village, who claimed to have witnessed ‘bir’ incident.

The SIT claimed the accused were upset with the state government for not allowing the release of movie ‘MSG-2’. Probing the Kotkapura firing incident, another SIT reached Faridkot to record the statements of the witnesses. — TNS