Court stays order to set up new SIT in Simarjeet Singh Bains case

Chandigarh, December 16

The Punjab and Haryana High Court today stayed the operation of an order whereby further investigation in a rape case against MLA Simarjeet Singh Bains was ordered by constituting a special investigating team after the submission of challan without the court’s permission.

Appearing before Justice Rajesh Bhardwaj’s Bench, the alleged victim through counsel CM Munjal contended the prosecutrix was fighting with the mighty state. The case had a chequered history, where the FIR was registered only after seeking the court’s intervention. Finally, the FIR was registered, investigation concluded and challan presented.

There were seven accused, but to date neither had any of the accused been arrested, nor proceedings initiated for declaring proclaimed offenders. To the victim’s surprise, the state constituted a fresh SIT on the basis of a motivated application filed by the brother of accused.

Munjal further submitted the SIT was constituted in the name of further investigation, but clandestinely the motive was “to save the accused against whom even non-bailable warrants are also issued but hadn’t been executed”. — TNS