Behbal Kalan police firing case: One arrested on charge of ‘faking bullet marks’

Balwant Garg
Tribune News Service
Faridkot, June 16

The Special Investigation Team of the Punjab Police probing Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan firing cases on Tuesday arrested Sohail Singh Brar, a resident of Faridkot, in the Behbal Kalan case for allegedly fabricating evidence.

Brar has been charged with creating fake bullets marks on the pilot Gypsy of former Moga SSP Charanjit Singh Sharma (also an accused) at his (Brar’s) residence.

Confirming Brar’s arrest, Inspector-General Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, chief investigator of the SIT, said the suspect would be presented in a Faridkot court tomorrow. “We have been conducting the investigation in a fair and impartial manner,” the IG said.

The SIT found that after the Behbal Kalan firing incident, a pilot Gypsy was taken to Brar’s house, where fake bullet marks were created on the vehicle to show that the police had fired in self-defence at the protesters participating in a sit-in at Behbal Kalan (Faridkot) in October 2015. The SIT has been probing the role of another accused, SP Bikramjit Singh, also in the matter of fake evidence.

IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh had filed challan against six persons, including former Akali MLA Mantar Singh Brar; IG Paramraj Singh Umranangal; former Moga SSP Charanjit Singh Sharma; SPs Paramjit Singh Pannu and Baljit Singh Sidhu; and SHO Gurdeep Singh Pandher in the Kotkapura firing case in May last year.

In the Behbal Kalan matter, the SIT filed challan against then Moga SSP Charanjit Singh Sharma in April last year.