Faridkot, August 4

Probing the six-year-old incident of police firing on Sikh protesters at Kotkapura, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Punjab Police on Wednesday recorded statements of five police officials. While the SIT members refused to share the details, sources revealed an SP, DSP and two police inspectors were among the persons who appeared before the SIT at its Faridkot-based camp office today.

Last week, 10 other police officers had appeared before the SIT to give their statement. In view of a political war over the sacrilege and police firing incidents of 2015, the SIT probing the case is in top gear these days. While it plans to complete its probe in the Kotkapura firing incident in the next two weeks, the fate of the SIT’s inquiry into the Behbal Kalan police firing case is still hanging in balance.

While many persons were injured in the Kotkapura incident on October 14, 2015, in the aftermath of sacrilege incidents, two persons were killed in the Behbal Kalan incident on the same day.

While the High Court had set aside the investigation into the Kotkapura incident and a new SIT was constituted, the fate of the earlier investigation in the Behbal Kalan case is yet to be decided by the High Court.

Though the government has already named a new head of the SIT for the Behbal Kalan case after Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh resigned, there is no progress in the Behbal Kalan case. — TNS