2015 Behbal Kalan firing case: Punjab Police SIT points contemporary summons to BJP chief Sampla
A Punjab Police Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) probing the 2015 Behbal Kalan police firing incident, has issued contemporary summons to former Union minister and senior BJP chief Vijay Kumar Sampla, asking him to seem earlier than it on June 28.
The summons got here a day after Sampla appeared earlier than the SIT.
In response to the discover issued underneath Part 179(1) of the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita (BNSS), Sampla has been directed to seem at 11 am on the Punjab Police Officers Institute (PPOI), Sector 32-C, Chandigarh, for examination and recording of his assertion.
The discover states that the SIT believes Sampla is acquainted with the information and circumstances of the circumstances and warns that non-compliance might appeal to motion underneath related provisions of legislation.
Speaking to mediapersons right here on Wednesday night, Sampla mentioned he was able to cooperate with the investigation however insisted that the paperwork primarily based on which he was being questioned ought to first be supplied to him.
“I’m able to cooperate with the SIT, however the paperwork ought to be supplied first in order that I can study them and provides my assertion. In any other case, each mine and the SIT’s time will go to waste,” he mentioned.
Sampla talked about that in his look earlier than the SIT on June 23, he was knowledgeable that his questioning was linked to a memorandum submitted to the Punjab Governor in 2018.
He mentioned he had sought a duplicate of the memorandum bearing his signature to grasp the premise of the inquiry earlier than giving his assertion.
“The memorandum was submitted in 2018, and practically eight to 9 years have handed. At the moment, the BJP was in alliance with the Shiromani Akali Dal, and any memorandum would have been submitted collectively. I must see what doc is being referred to and what my function was in it,” he mentioned.
Sampla famous that he had additionally given a written reply to the summons, reiterating his demand for the paperwork.
He additional mentioned that he served as Punjab BJP president from April 2016 to April 2018 and was not main any delegation when the memorandum was submitted.
“There have been a number of individuals within the delegation, together with leaders from each the BJP and SAD. I don’t perceive why I alone have been known as,” he mentioned.
The BJP chief alleged that the motion was politically motivated and amounted to harassment, claiming he had no direct or oblique involvement within the incidents underneath investigation.
He additionally claimed that the SIT motion was getting used to divert consideration from different points, referring to an alleged viral video linked to the controversy involving Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann.
Incidents associated to the theft of a ‘bir’ (copy) of Guru Ganth Sahib from Burj Jawahar Singh Wala gurdwara, placing up handwritten sacrilegious posters in Bargari and Burj Jawahar Singh Wala, and torn pages of the holy e-book discovered scattered at Bargari had taken place in Bargari in Faridkot in 2015. These incidents had led to anti-sacrilege protests in Faridkot.
Within the police firing at anti-sacrilege protesters in October 2015, two individuals, Gurjeet Singh and Krishan Bhagwan Singh, have been killed in Behbal Kalan, whereas some others have been injured at Kotkapura in Faridkot.
