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Wisdom keeps dawning in cases
against Akalis
WSN Network
 CHANDIGARH:
Sukhbir
Singh Badal wanted to make this man the president of Youth Akali Dal,
but there was a problem. He was facing murder cases. Others have
been taken care of. Cases against Parkash Singh Badal and his family
members will soon come to a logical end. They will end. So many
witnesses have turned hostile and even the poor, illiterate farmer
in a remote village knows why.
Something
similar is happening in the case of her daughter’s murder against
Bibi Jagir Kaur. Akali ministers and former ministers are similarly
either deriving or hoping to derive the benefit of spoils of power.
So it was no surprise when the Punjab government moved an
application in the court of Rupnagar (Ropar) Additional Sessions
Judge G.S. Saran seeking consent for withdrawal of case against
Akali Dal leader Kiranbir Singh Kang and his supporters, accused of
firing in Kharar. Two people were killed in the incident.
The public
prosecutor has now found, of course very conveniently, that the case
registered against Kiranbir Singh Kang, Dharam Singh Kang, Neena
Kang, Gurjit Singh, Ravinder Singh, Satinder Singh, Sewa Singh,
Harjit Singh, Harsimran Singh, Kulbir Singh and Jugraj Singh should
be withdrawn since an examination of the entire record has made him
wise.
The clash at
Kharar grain market was between supporters of Kang and Akali leader
Rajbir Singh Padiala at an Akali conference on July 2, 2004 during
SGPC elections and police had registered a cross case of murder,
attempt to murder and under the Arms Act against both Kang and
Padiala and heir supporters after the incident.
The pattern of
developments is by now standard, and it was no different in this
case. The Akalis won the election. Kang’s father moved an
application ; the DGP set up a Special Investigating Team (SIT); the
SIT reinvestigated the matter; naturally it found the case against
the accused to be ‘false’; the police filed a supplementary report
in the court at Kharar seeking discharge of some supporters of Kang
from the case.
The court
created a problem. It dismissed the plea. Now, the state government
has filed an application in the court seeking withdrawal of case
against Kang. Sukhbir has already announced Kang as Youth Akali Dal
president. Signals are clear. Soon, the prosecutors will read it.
Rajbir Singh Padiala has criticised the government for seeking
withdrawal of the case against Kang, saying it was injustice against
him. But he can perhaps look at the justice to Kang.
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April 2008
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