Faridkot: A local court on Saturday rejected a plea by senior advocate HS Phoolka seeking medical examination of Jaswinder Singh and Rupinder Singh. The plea claimed that Rupinder was unable to consume solid food as he suffered a backbone injury while participating in a protest at Kotkapura.
With the police investigating the seven incidents of sacrilege, mainly the one at Bargari village, in a “secretive manner”, the families of the accused youths have sought intervention of the state Governor urging him to order a CBI inquiry.
Earlier this week, the police claimed that the two brothers, Rupinder Singh and Jaswinder Singh, arrested for sacrilege at Bargari village had received funds from abroad to commit the crime. The police have not supported their claim with any fresh evidence so far. On the other hand, the callers from Dubai and Australia have refuted the police theory and expressed their willingness to join the probe.
The family members of the two brothers accompanied by representatives of Sikh organisations today submitted a memorandum at the office of Governor Kaptan Singh Solanki and sought a CBI probe into the incident.
Parminder Kaur and Harpreet Kaur, sisters of the accused, said: “There is no truth in police claims. The police picked them on October 16 and showed their arrest on October 20. We have no faith in the state police and the Akali government,” they alleged.