Dera Sacha Sauda follower Mohinder Pal Bittu’s wife seeks CBI probe

Chandigarh, November 10

More than four months after Dera Sacha Sauda follower Mohinder Pal Bittu’s death in judicial custody, his wife today moved the Punjab and Haryana High Court, seeking directions to the state of Punjab and other respondents for a probe by the CBI or any other independent agency.

The transfer of the probe, among other things, was sought on the ground that the state police had arbitrarily and illegally not investigated the conspiracy part

of the case before submitting an incomplete challan “by not verifying the true facts of the case”.

Petitioner Santosh Kumari through counsel RK Handa submitted that her husband lodged in Nabha New District Jail was brutally murdered in the judicial custody following a deep conspiracy of the higher police officers enjoying political patronage. — TNS

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