Chandigarh, March 6, 2020 (Yes Punjab News)
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today termed chief minister Capt Amarinder’s allegations that the SAD was trying to subvert justice by influencing the CBI as a bundle of lies and asked him to request the Supreme Court Chief Justice to depute a sitting judge to probe the Bargari sacrilege incident if he was really serious about delivering justice in the case.
Stating that the chief minister could not cover his own government’s failure to give justice in the Bargari sacrilege case with mischievous statements which did not have any basis, SAD Spokesman Dr Daljit Singh Cheema said Capt Amarinder did not find it fit to call on the Prime Minister or Home Minister on this issue for the last three years.
“Even now the chief minister is playing a desperate gambit to divert attention from his failures after Congress ministers have been accused of saving policemen in the related Behbal Kalan police firing case. “The family of a prime witness has detailed, even in the State assembly, how Minister Gurpreet Singh Kangar and Faridkot legislator Kushaldeep Singh Dhillon intimidated and harassed the witness to shield the guilty police officers.
“The family of another witness has also detailed to the Punjab and Haryana high court how names of seven out of eleven police officers accused of firing at innocent Sikhs have been dropped from an FIR at the instance of Minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa”.
Dr Cheema said it was justifiable that the chief minister did not want the CBI to probe the matter as his own party leaders and ministers would be placed in the dock for pressuring witnesses to withdraw their statements. “That is why the CM is getting panicky and issuing completely false and baseless statements”, Dr Cheema added.
The former minister said the SAD had always stood for exposing and booking those responsible for the heinous cases of sacrifice. He said the chief minister should not shy away from a CBI inquiry into the case and if he still felt apprehensive there was no reason not to ask the Supreme Court to hold an inquiry into the incident.
