FIR AGAINST ‘UNIDENTIFIED COPS’ AN EYEWASH: CAPT
Friday, 23/10/2015
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CHANDIGARH: Captain Amarinder Singh, Congress deputy leader in the Lok Sabha, has called the first-information report (FIR) in the Behbal Kalan police firing incident “an eyewash”, since it doesn’t name any cop.
“The FIR is aimed at protecting the guilty, actually,” Amarinder claimed in a statement issued here, in which he accused Punjab director general of police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini of trying to protect the guilty cops, who were “his favourites”. “Otherwise why hide their names when everybody knows who they are?” he said.
Amarinder said that the very fact that no cop had been named in the FIR made the intentions of the state government obvious — “that it was more interested in protecting the guilty than doing justice”. The former chief minister said the police themselves had acknowledged that suspended Moga senior superintendent of police (SSP) Charanjit Sharma had ordered the police firing and the local station house officer (SHO) and his team had carried out the order. He demanded the names of both officers to be put in the FIR.
BADAL MUST QUIT, SAYS RANA GURJEET
Senior Congress leader Rana Gurjeet Singh, meanwhile, said chief minister Parkash Singh Badal had lost the confidence of the Panth and it was time he quit. Accusing Badal of exploiting the Panth all these years for vested interests, the Congress MLA from Kapurthala, in a statement here, said there was complete anarchy in Punjab for about a month now and Badal had lost control.
“Earlier you used these institutions as personal property and imposed your dictatorial orders on them, but now they have rightly started revolting against you,” he stated, while addressing the chief minister.
