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Kotkapura firing: SIT records statements of then Faridkot SSP, 10 other cops
The three-member special investigation team (SIT) led by ADGP LK Yadav probing the 2015 Kotkapura firing incident on Wednesday recorded statements of 11 cops, including then Faridkot senior superintendent of police (now commandant, 9th battalion, PAP, Amritsar) Sukhminder Singh Mann as witnesses
The three-member special investigation team (SIT) led by ADGP LK Yadav probing the 2015 Kotkapura firing incident on Wednesday recorded statements of 11 cops, including then Faridkot senior superintendent of police (now commandant, 9th battalion, PAP, Amritsar) Sukhminder Singh Mann as witnesses.
The SIT had summoned cops, who had given their statements to the previous SIT in the case. Apart from Mann, SP Tarun Rattan, DSPs Harjinder Singh Gill, Amarjeet Singh Sidhu, inspectors Kuldeep Chand, Paramjeet Singh, Bachan Singh and head constable Iqbal Chand were among who appeared before the SIT.
The Punjab and Haryana high court had on April 9 quashed all reports filed by the previous SIT headed by the inspector general of police (now retired) Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh in the case. The state government constituted the new three-member SIT that has been directed to complete the investigation within six months.
On May 13, the Yadav-led SIT started the probe by recording the statements of cops injured in the incident, besides taking case records in possession from the local police station. Since then, Mann has been summoned more than six times by the SIT and his statements have been recorded multiple times.
Conduct lie-detector outside Punjab, Chandigarh: Umranangal
The SIT had recently called suspended inspector general of police (IGP) Paramraj Singh Umranangal at Chandigarh to discuss the condition for conducting lie-detector test on him.
People privy to the development said that Umranangal had told the SIT that the test should be conducted outside Punjab and Chandigarh. “He is ready to undergo the lie-detector test in Delhi as well. But he put a condition that the medical facility should not be under Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government,” said an official not wishing to be named.
On July 9, Umranangal appeared before the court at Faridkot and gave a written consent to undergo a lie-detector test in the Kotkapura case. The SIT had filed an application in a court last month, seeking permission to conduct the narco-analysis, polygraph test and brain electrical activation profile of Umranangal, former Punjab director general of police Sumedh Singh Saini and ex-Moga senior superintendent of police Charanjit Singh Sharma.
However, Saini and Sharma had refused to undergo the lie-detector test.
