SIT quizzes Punjab ex-DGP Sumedh Singh Saini for 4 hours

Chandigarh: The newly constituted three-member special investigation team (SIT) of Punjab Police headed by ADGP-cum-director vigilance bureau L K Yadav on Monday questioned former Punjab DGP Sumedh Singh Saini here for 4 hours in the Kotkapura police firing case of October 2015.
Sources said Saini was questioned 3pm to 7pm. Others who were questioned included special DGP rank officers Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota and Rohit Chaudhary. It is learnt that SIT would question other police officers, including suspended IG Paramraj Singh Umranangal, on June 7 in the case.
In compliance of the Punjab and Haryana high court, the state government had on May 7 constituted the three-member SIT, comprising Ludhiana commissioner of police Rakesh Agarwal and DIG Faridkot range Surjeet Singh to probe two FIRs (dated Oct 14, 2015, and Aug 7, 2018) in connection with the Kotkapura police firing incidents. In April, the high court had quashed the probe conducted into the case by the earlier SIT comprising then IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh and ordered the constitution of new SIT.