Punjab: SIT arrests 7 in 2015 Guru Granth Sahib theft case

Meanwhile, the October 2015 Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura firing circumstances are being investigated by SIT led by Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh. (Representational)
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by DIG Ranbir Singh Khattra arrested seven Dera Sacha Sauda followers on Saturday over the alleged theft of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib from Gurdwara Burj Jawahar Singhwala on June 1, 2015. The SIT had began probing this case in February this 12 months. The CBI too has been finishing up a parallel investigation within the case since November, 2015.

The seven arrested individuals have been recognized as Shakti Singh, Sukhjinder Singh alias Sunny, Nishan Singh, Narinder Kumar Sharma, Baljit Singh, Ranjit Singh alais Bhola and Randeep Singh alais Neela — all residents of Faridkot. They have been later produced within the court docket of obligation Justice of the Peace Chetan Sharma in Faridkot.

However, two out of those seven have been launched by court docket and different 5 have been despatched in two-day police remand. The two accused who’ve been launched are Shakti Singh and Sukhjinder Singh alias Sunny. Their counsel Vinod Kumar Monga had given a plea that each had been arrested by CBI in 2018 in the identical case and had been launched on bail in September, 2018 by the Mohali CBI court docket.

Meanwhile, DIG Khattra had additionally arrested Shakti Singh, Sukjinder Singh and Mohinder Pal Bittu (who later died in Nabha jail in 2019) and almost 15 extra in July, 2018 in a 2011 sacrilege incident which had occurred at Malke in Moga district and in one other case of torching buses.

However throughout investigation, he had acquired leads of their involvement in theft of ‘Bir’ and had thus handed over these particulars to CBI .

Later, the CBI had arrested them in Guru Granth Sahib theft case because it was the investigating company in the identical case at the moment. The CBI had been handed over three circumstances throughout SAD-BJP authorities — certainly one of theft of bir of Guru Granth Sahib, second of pasting provocative posters within the streets Bargari village on September 25, 2015 and third of alleged desecration of Guru Granth Sahib within the streets of Bargari village on October 12, 2015.

Khattra mentioned, “During my investigation of cases of Malke sacrilege, I had found that these persons were linked with Guru Granth Sahib theft case and hence continuing with that investigation, we arrested seven of them on Saturday morning. Further investigation will reveal more details.”

Without naming the CBI, he added,” I’m not questioning investigation of another company. However, I’m going as per the investigation of our SIT in all of the three circumstances….Mohinder Pal Bittu who had been arrested in Moga arson case had additionally confessed about theft of Guru Granth Sahib. So, the SIT has many leads on the idea of which arrests have been made.”

Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan firing circumstances

Meanwhile, the October 2015 Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura firing circumstances are being investigated by SIT led by Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh.

Recently, two individuals — Sukhail Singh Brar and Pankaj Bansal – have been arrested on this case for allegedly serving to police in allegedly creating faux bullet marks over police pilot gypsy to say that police firing was completed in defence.

On Saturday, the bail pleas of Brar and Bansal have been rejected by the Fairdkot district court docket. Kotkapura SHO Gurdeep Singh Pandher has additionally been arrested within the case over prices of misplaced cartridges of police weapons. His bail software can be heard on July 7.

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