The Punjab and Haryana High Court on September 29 granted anticipatory bail to Punjab’s former Deputy Chief Minister and Shiromani Akali Dal president Sukhbir Singh Badal, as well as to ex-Director General of Police Sumedh Saini and four other former police officers, in connection with a 2015 case where the police allegedly fired on peaceful protesters at Kotkapura and Behbal …
In police firing at protesters in October that year, two people were killed in Behbal Kalan and some people were injured in Kotkapura Chandigarh: A Punjab Police Special Investigation Team probing the 2015 Kotkapura police firing incident has summoned Shiromani Akali Dal president and the then deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal to appear before it on 30 August for …
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