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  • Ultimate SIT file on 2015 Punjab sacrilege circumstances places blames on Dera Sacha Sauda

    By way of PTI

    CHANDIGARH: The overall investigation file of the Punjab Police at the 2015 desecration circumstances has pinned blame on Sirsa-based Dera Sacha Sauda.

    Punjab Leader Minister Bhagwant Mann on Saturday passed over the 467-page file of the particular investigation crew of the Punjab Police to Sikh leaders, together with Chamkaur Singh and Main Singh Pandori right here, mentioned officers.

    The SIT led via Inspector Normal of Police SPS Parmar investigated the incidents and post the report back to the state DGP on April 21.

    The incidents associated with the robbery of a ‘bir’ (reproduction) of the Guru Ganth Sahib, striking up handwritten sacrilegious posters and torn pages of the holy guide discovered scattered at Bargari had taken position in Faridkot in 2015.

    Those incidents had ended in protests in Faridkot.

    Within the police firing at protesters in October 2015, two individuals had been killed in Behbal Kalan whilst some other folks had been injured at Kotkapura in Faridkot.

    In step with the file, Dera leader Gurmeet Ram Rahim has been named in 3 desecration incidents.

    As consistent with the file, the reason in the back of the 3 circumstances “is having a right away hyperlink with the Dera Sacha Sauda and the accused individuals who’re fascinated with those circumstances are fans of the mentioned dera.”

    “It’s glaring from subject matter/proof accrued via the SIT of the Punjab Police that the accused had been having direct nexus with the control of the dera. The reason in the back of the incidents used to be additionally having a hyperlink with the film ‘MSG-2’,” it mentioned.

    Fans of the Dera Sacha Sauda had been disappointed over the non-release of Ram Rahim starrer Messenger of God (MSG-2) film.

    The opposite accused in those 3 circumstances are Sukhjinder Singh, alias Sunny, Shakti Singh, Baljit Singh, Randeep Singh, alias Neela, Ranjit Singh, alias Bhola, Nishan Singh, Narinder Sharma and Pardeep Singh.

    The 3 different accused–Harsh Dhuri, Pardeep Kler and Sandeep Bareta–are but to be arrested.

    They have got been declared proclaimed offenders.

    Dera Sacha Sauda follower Mohinder Friend Bittu, who used to be a key accused within the circumstances, used to be killed in a Nabha jail via two inmates in 2019.

    The SIT had even puzzled Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh within the Sunaria prison of Haryana’s Rohtak in reference to the incidents.

    On the other hand, the file mentioned Ram Rahim remained “non-cooperative” all over the process investigation via the SIT.

    The 3 circumstances of sacrilege are below trial at a Faridkot courtroom and the following date for the framing of fees in opposition to the accused is July 29.

    Remaining yr, the CBI at the instructions of the Punjab and Haryana Prime Courtroom had passed over the paperwork and information associated with the 2015 incidents to the Punjab Police SIT.

    In 2015, the then SAD-BJP executive had passed over the 3 circumstances to the CBI for probe.

    The Punjab executive had passed over the probe to an SIT of the state police in September 2018 after the state Meeting handed a answer taking flight consent to the CBI to analyze those circumstances, noting loss of growth within the investigation.