Aam Aadmi Party’s (AAP) legislator and former IPS officer Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh on Thursday made startling revelations in the matter of sacrilege and related firing incidents that rocked the state in 2015. The former IPS officer claimed that the former Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh had, even before the High Court’s verdict, “rejected” his report on the behest of his advisor and renowned political strategist Prashant Kishor.
 
Also putting in dock the Punjab Police’s Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing Kotkapura firing incident, led by LK Yadav, Singh alleged that when the former Deputy Chief Minister and SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal appeared before it recently on September 14, “no questions were asked, instead he was sent after treating him with chai-pakodas”.
 
Raising objection, SAD MLA Dr Sukhwinder Singh Sukhi sought time from the Speaker Kultar Singh Sandhwan to speak, which was rejected. After this, SAD’s all the three MLAs boycotted the House, and staged the walkout.
 
Raising the issue during the Zero Hour amidst sloganeering by the Congress MLAs in the well of the House, Singh asserted that till date, no one has been able to point put any mistake on his report, that he had submitted as the SIT chief and was rejected by the Punjab and Haryana High Court as “politically motivated”.
 
“Capt Amarinder was in some hurry to get my report rejected,” claimed Singh while stating that he had received an e-mail from the higher-ups on April 9, 2021. “After receiving the mail, I had met the Chief Minister Capt Amarinder and requested that we should seek another date in case the Advocate-General is not able to appear before the Court…but Capt Amarinder was in a hurry,” he said.
 
Notably, after the High Court rejected Singh’s report, the IPS officer had put down his papers.
 
He also raised questions on Yadav’s appointment as SIT chief. “LK Yadav’s appointment as SIT chief was not made as per the directions of the High Court, as it had directed that an ADGP rank officer be posted as the investigating officer, while LK Yadav was the IG at that time. In fact, 35 officers were of the ADGP rank at that time, but they were not appointed,” he added.