The Punjab and Haryana high court on Monday summoned the Punjab chief secretary and director general of police after the state counsel failed to file the status report in the case in which one Jaspal Singh was killed in police firing in Gurdaspur on March 29 last year.
The FIR in the case, in which one Ranjit Singh was also injured in police firing, was registered on March 29, 2012, at Gurdaspur police station.
The directions came during the resumed hearing of a public interest litigation filed by NGO Lawyers for Human Rights International. The petitioner has sought a CBI inquiry into the case.
However, as per the earlier directions of the court, deputy inspector general of police (crime) Balkar Singh Sidhu was present in the court on Monday. The court had also asked the police to file the action taken report on the investigation report earlier submitted to the court by commissioner of police, Jalandhar.
The petitioner had informed the court that on March 29, around 20 to 30 Sikh youths were sitting outside Gurdwara Ramgarhia, Tibri Road, Gurdaspur, seeking arrest of the Shiv Sena youths, who had thrashed them on March 28 when the Sikh youths were showing their resentment against the scheduled execution of Balwant Singh Rajoana, co-convict in assassination of former Punjab chief minister Beant Singh and others.
It was then that around 100 police personnel reached the spot and without any warning first opened fire in the air and later targeted the unarmed youth.
The case will come up for hearing on September 10.
Source: HT