Meanwhile, the dismissal cases of Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura in October 2015 are being investigated by the SIT led by Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh. (Figurative)
The Special Investigation Team (SIT) led by DIG Ranbir Singh Khattra arrested seven followers of Dera Sacha Sauda on Saturday for the alleged theft of the Sri Guru Granth Sahib from Gurdwara Burj Jawahar Singhwala on June 1, 2015. The SIT had begun to Investigate this case in February of this year. The CBI has also conducted a parallel investigation into the case since November 2015.
The seven people arrested have been identified as Shakti Singh, Sukhjinder Singh aka Sunny, Nishan Singh, Narinder Kumar Sharma, Baljit Singh, Ranjit Singh alais Bhola, and Randeep Singh alais Neela, all residents of Faridkot. Later they were produced at the Magtan Chetan Sharma duty court in Faridkot.
However, two of these seven were released by the court and another five were sent to two-day remand in custody. The two defendants who have been released are Shakti Singh and Sukhjinder Singh, aka Sunny. Their lawyer, Vinod Kumar Monga, stated that they had both been arrested by CBI in 2018 in the same case and had been released on bail in September 2018 by the Mohali CBI court.
Meanwhile, DIG Khattra also arrested Shakti Singh, Sukjinder Singh, and Mohinder Pal Bittu (who later died in Nabha prison in 2019), and nearly 15 others in July 2018 in a 2011 sacrilege incident that occurred in Malke in the Moga district and in another case of burning buses.
However, during the investigation, he obtained clues to his involvement in the “Bir” robbery and therefore released those details to CBI.
Later, the CBI arrested them in the Guru Granth Sahib robbery case, as it was the investigating agency in the same case at the time. The CBI had delivered three cases during the SAD-BJP government: one involving the theft of Guru Granth Sahib’s bir, the second of putting provocative posters on the streets of the village of Bargari on September 25, 2015, and the third of the alleged desecration of Guru Granth Sahib in the streets of the village of Bargari on October 12, 2015.
Khattra said: “During my investigation of Malke’s sacrilege cases, I discovered that these people were linked to the Guru Granth Sahib robbery case and therefore we continued that investigation, we arrested seven of them on Saturday morning. Further investigation will reveal more details. ”
Without naming the CBI, he added: “I am not questioning the investigation of any other agency.” However, I am going according to our SIT investigation in all three cases. Mohinder Pal Bittu who had been arrested in the Moga arson case had also confessed about the robbery of Guru Granth Sahib. So the SIT has many leads on the basis of which arrests have been made. ”
Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan dismissal cases
Meanwhile, the dismissal cases of Behbal Kalan and Kotkapura in October 2015 are being investigated by the SIT led by Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh.
Two people, Sukhail Singh Brar and Pankaj Bansal were recently arrested in this case for allegedly helping the police create false bullet marks on the gypsy police pilot to claim that the police shots were fired in defense.
On Saturday, Brar and Bansal’s bail appeals were rejected by the Faridkot District Court. Kotkapura SHO Gurdeep Singh Pandher was also arrested in the case on charges of lost cartridges of police weapons. Your bond request will be heard on July 7.
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