The SIT found Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale to be innocent in the Kotkapura violence case .
The special investigation team (SIT) headed by inspector general of police (IGP) Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh has declared Sikh preachers Bhai Panthpreet Singh, Bhai Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale, Amrik Singh Ajnala, Harjinder Singh Manjhi, Giani Kewal Singh and 18 others as ‘innocent’ in the Kotkapura violence case registered in 2015.
SIT has removed their names as accused from the case.
Bhai Panthpreet Singh has been found to be innocent
SIT has
removed their names as accused from the case.
The development
came with the SIT’s move of filing a chargesheet against then Kotkapura DSP
Baljit Singh Sidhu and SHO Gurdeep Singh Pandher on Friday14th August 2020.
As per the case,
the Sikh preachers — Bhai Panthpreet Singh, Ranjit Singh Dhadrianwale, Amrik
Singh Ajnala, Harjinder Singh Manji and others — were leading the protest
against the then Shiromani Akali Dal government over the Bargari sacrilege
incident, demanding the arrest of the accused.
The police on
October 14, 2015 registered an FIR against 15 Sikh preachers and unknown persons
at Kotkapura city police station for allegedly instigating the protesters to
attack the police with sharp edge weapons and opening fire on cops.
The case was
registered under sections of 307 (attempt to murder), 120-B (criminal
conspiracy) and other relevant sections of the IPC, Arms Act and Prevention of
Damage to Public Property Act, on the complaint of then Kotkapura SHO Gurdeep
Singh.
Following the
incident, Bhai Panthpreet Singh, Mander Singh, Rachhpal Singh, Balpreeet Singh
and five others were arrested by the police in the case.
The Faridkot
court released the Sikh preachers on October 16, 2015. The SIT also recorded
their statements in the case. The probe found that the preachers and others
were protesting peacefully over the sacrilege incident.
The SIT claimed
that then DSP Baljeet Singh Sidhu and SHO Gurdeep have framed many innocent
persons in the violence case. It said Pandher and Sidhu made an attempt to
destroy 11 pieces of evidence, manipulated and fabricated crucial facts of the
case. The SIT claimed that they were part of a conspiracy to create a
self-defence theory to justify the police stand that protestors had attacked
the police in Kotkapura.
Pandher, who is
presently under judicial custody, was arrested by the SIT on June 25. Later Sidhu
was also named an accused in the case.
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