Hearing in Gagneja murder case on Jan 6

Mohali, December 10

The hearing on the plea for the transfer of murder case of state RSS vice-president Brig Jagdish Gagneja (retd) to New Delhi has been deferred till January 6.

The case came up for hearing in the court of NIA Special Judge Karunesh Kumar. British national Jagtar Singh Johal alias Jaggi Johal and Dharminder Singh alias Gugni had filed separate applications for their discharge from the case, which would come up for hearing on January 6.

NIA senior public prosecutor Surinder Singh said the Union Home Ministry had approved the transfer of the NIA probe to a special court in Delhi. All accused have been lodged in the jail and had appeared before the court through video conferencing.

Defence lawyers Ranjodh Singh Sarai and Jaspal Singh said they had also filed a caveat petition in the Supreme Court, demanding that they should also be heard at the time of the hearing on NIA’s application.

Surinder Singh said the chargesheet has been filed against the accused, Johal, Gugni, Hardeep Singh Shera, Ramandeep Singh Bagga, Amninder Singh, Manpreet Singh, Ravipal, Pahar Singh, Maluk, Parvej and Anil Kala under Sections 302, 379, 419, 120B IPC and 34 of the Arms Act.

All criminal cases of the NIA have now been transferred to NIA Special Judge Karunesh Kumar, including terrorist attack on IAF airbase in Pathankot, Pakistan drone case, multi-crore drug smuggling from across Pakistan, murder of Hindu leaders, grenade attack on Maqsudan police station in Jalandhar, bomb blast case at Pandori village Kalan in Tarn Taran, and cases regarding the criminal activities of Babbar Khalsa. — TNS