Former senior superintendent of police Charanjit Sharma has moved an application in the Punjab and Haryana high court seeking the transfer of the 2015 Kotkapura police firing case to Chandigarh. After HC transferred the 2015 Behbal Kalan police firing case from Faridkot to Chandigarh, the Faridkot session judge on July 19 sent a reference to the high court seeking directions …
In the midst of Tuesday's shake-up, with the Jannayak Janta Party walking out of its alliance with the Bharatiya Janata Party in Haryana, the move of stiff-necked bureaucrat-turned-politician and BJP’s sitting Hisar MP Brijendra Singh to the Congress camp earlier this week may be forgotten, but it marks the first high-profile switch from the saffron party. Brijendra’s father Birender Singh …
Former director general of police Sumedh Singh Saini on Friday furnished bail bonds in the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class Ajay Pal Singh in the 2015 Kotkapura firing case. In September, the Punjab and Haryana high court had granted anticipatory bail to Saini along with former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal and five other cops in the case. …
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 …
The special investigation team on Thursday told the district and sessions court in Faridkot that the then Punjab director general of police Sumedh Singh Saini and suspended inspector general of police Paramraj Singh Umaranangal were the main conspirators in the Behbal Kalan firing episode. Sumedh Singh Saini Last week, the SIT probing the 2015 police firing incidents had approached the …