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2015 Kotkapura firing: SAD chief Sukhbir Badal appears before Punjab Police SIT
Badal was the deputy chief minister and holding the home portfolio when the incidents of desecration of religious texts and the subsequent police firing at people protesting against it had taken place in Faridkot in 2015
Shiromani Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Monday appeared before a special investigation team of Punjab Police probing the 2015 Kotkapura police firing case.
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Badal reached the Punjab Police Officers’ Institute in Chandigarh at 11.40am, official sources said.
The SIT, led by additional director general of police LK Yadav, summoned the SAD chief to appear before it on Monday.
Badal was the deputy chief minister and holding the home portfolio when the incidents of desecration of religious texts and the subsequent police firing at people protesting against it had taken place in Faridkot in 2015.
The incidents relate to the theft of a ‘bir’ (copy) of Guru Granth Sahib, putting up of handwritten sacrilegious posters, and torn pages of the holy book being found scattered at Bargari in Faridkot.
These incidents triggered protests and two persons, Gurjeet Singh and Kishan Bhagwan Singh, were killed in the police firing at Behbal Kalan in Kotkapura sub division of Faridkot district.
Badal had earlier been questioned by the same SIT on September 14. He was questioned by the SIT on June 26 last year, too.
The SAD chief was grilled by another SIT, led by inspector general of police Naunihal Singh, in the 2015 Behbal Kalan police firing case on September 6. While the Yadav-led SIT is probing the Kotkapura firing case, the Naunihal-led SIT is investigating the Behbal Kalan firing incident.
