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Bhai Daljit Singh, Gamma acquitted
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Ludhiana: After 22 years, an Indian court was finally forced by the force of evidence to discharge Bhai Daljit Singh Bittu and Gursharan Singh Gamma, wrongly accused in the 1986 attack on Justice R.L. Anand, currently chairman of the Punjab State Human Rights Commission.

The two were facing charges under Section 307 of the IPC, Sections 3, 4 and 5 of the Terrorist and Disruptive Activities (Prevention) Act and Sections 25, 54 and 59 of the Arms Act.

The judgement was given by M.S. Virdi, Additional Sessions Judge of the designated TADA court here on Tuesday.

The Division No. 5 police station in Ludhiana had registered a case of attempt to murder in 1986 after some unidentified persons fired at Justice Anand. On April 24, 1996, Bittu and Gamma were arrested in the case. It was usual for the police to implicate any radical Sikh youth or one speaking up for the community in one case or the other. Many Sikh youth have languished in jails because of such tactics of the police and Bhai Daljit Singh has spent a lifetime fighting for the victims himself.

During the arguments in the case, the counsel for the two pointed out that the police had not submitted the challan in the case. The court then conducted an inquiry and found that only a supplementary challan had been filed in the TADA Designated Court, Hoshiarpur. However, even after the inquiry, the police did not submit a challan.

19 March 2008
 

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