Bheem Tank murder: 3 witnesses record statements

FAZILKA: Main eyewitness in the Bheem Tank murder case Akash Kumar again give a miss to the session court in Fazilka to record his statement on Thursday. The Supreme Court, while disposing the special leave petition by slain Dalit youth Bheem Tank mother Kaushalya Devi, had directed the Fazilka session court to examine Akash. The case is scheduled for next hearing on February 14.

Meanwhile, Gurjant Singh alias Janta, Ranjit Singh Rana and Bhola, three other prime witnesses in the case, recorded their statements in which they claimed that they were pressurized by the then ruling SAD-BJP government in the state for reportedly change their statements to save Shiv Lal Doda, a SAD leader and liquor contractor, for the murder of Bheem Tank.

Tank was hacked to death by Doda’s henchmen at his farmhouse in Ramsara village in Abohar on December 11, 2015.

In the court of Sandip Kumar Jossan, additional sessions judge, Fazilka, the three eyewitnesses alleged that even today they were being threatened by Doda’s men following which the district police had provided them security cover. They demanded capital punishment for Doda and others for Tank’s murder.