Sacrilege: Fresh handwriting sample of accused taken

Balwant Garg

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Tribune News Service

Faridkot, June 1

To negate a report of the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL) of the CBI in which the agency had given a clean chit to all three prime accused of sacrilege incidents, the SIT of the Punjab Police today collected the handwriting samples of Sukhjinder Singh alias Sunny, accused of writing the blasphemous posters, in the court of Judicial Magistrate Ist Class (JMIC), Faridkot.

The CFSL, in its report dated August 28, 2018, had claimed that the handwriting on the posters did not match with any of the suspects — Mohinder Pal, alias Bittu; Sukhjinder Singh, alias Sunny; Shakti Singh and eight others in the Burj Jawahar Singh Wala and Bargari sacrilege incidents.

However, claiming that the CBI did not properly compare the handwritings of the accused with that on the posters, an SIT official today approached the JMIC court here, seeking to collect a sample of Sukhjinder’s handwriting.

Before the investigation in the sacrilege cases was transferred to the SIT in January this year on the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, it was being investigated by the CBI.

Besides giving a clean chit to the accused in the writing of sacrilegious posters, the CBI’s CFSL had found all the accused as “truthful” in their polygraph test.

While the new SIT arrested six Dera Sacha Sauda followers on May 16, the accused are relying on the CBI report, which had given them a clean chit.

Nearly 75 persons underwent various tests, including forensic psychological assessment, handwriting, polygraph (lie detection test), palm/finger prints examination, layered voice analysis tests in CFSL between September 2016 and August 2018 during the investigation in three sacrilege incidents at Bargari and Burj Jawahar Singh Wala between June and October, 2015.