Punjab Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing the 2015 police firing incidents, on Monday filed a chargesheet against former Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini in the Kotkapura firing case.
The SIT named Saini as an accused in a supplementary chargesheet filed in the Court of Judicial Magistrate Ekta Uppal, which has summoned him for hearing on February 18. Saini was named an accused in the Kotkapura police firing case on October 10 last year.
The move comes three days after the SIT, led by Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, filed a chargesheet against Saini and IGP Paramraj Singh Umranangal, who is under suspension, for the 2015 Behbal Kalan firing. With the SIT filing another chargesheet, total four chargesheets, including three supplementary ones against seven accused, have so far been filed in the matter.
Among the seven accused, six are police officials while one is against a former Shiromani Akali Dal MLA.
The first chargesheet was filed against former Moga Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Charanjit Singh Sharma in May 2019, the second in June 2019 in which six people, including former SAD MLA Mantar Brar, Umranangal, former SSP Sharma, ADCP Paramjit Singh Pannu, then Kotkapura DSP Baljit Singh and then Kotkapura SHO Gurdeep Singh Pandher, were named as accused.
In the third chargesheet, the Ranjit Singh panel report was made a part of the SIT’s chargesheet.
