Punjab Government’s Special Investigating Team, investigating 2015 sacrilege and related firing cases, has issued summons to the then Director General of Police (DGP) Sumedh Singh Saini for questioning on February 25.
SIT has asked Saini, now retired, to appear on February 25 in the Punjab Police headquarter at Chandigarh.
Probing Bargari sacrilege and subsequent police firings at Behbal Kalan, SIT has, two days back, arrested IG Paramraj Singh Umranangal. Earlier last month, the SIT had arrested Moga’s former SSP Charanjit Sharma.
Both are accused of ordering firing at a peaceful mob that had gathered to protest against the sacrilege incidents at Kotkapura.
Earlier, the SIT had also questioned Bollywood actor Akshay Kumar for allegedly arranging a meeting between Dera Sacha Sauda chief and Punjab’s then deputy Chief Minister and SAD president Sukhbir Badal. Besides, the former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal and Sukhbir have also been questioned by the SIT in the matter.
Two Sikh youths were killed and many were injured in the police firing on the peaceful protesters in 2015.