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Kirpal Singh Randhawa to file libel
case
WSN Network
Amritsar: Kirpal
Singh Randhawa, the prime witness in the Jaswant Singh Khalra case
is now planning to file a defamation suit against state’s top police
officials who lately had tried to implicate him in a rape case.
Randhawa was
acquitted in the case by
Patiala’s
sessions court last year and HC’s decision has come given yet
another respite.
The case was
registered at Sadar police station in
Patiala under
sections 376 and 506 of the IPC on
July 28, 2003,
and Randhawa was arrested. He remained in the jail for two months
before he was granted bail. It was after four years in 2007 that
sessions court acquitted him. The session court found that the
medical examination of the woman revealed that no rape and the
circumstantial evidence and witnesses gave no cogent proof.
Randhawa said
the police officials had threatened him of dire consequences if he
deposed before the court in the Khalra case, and as he decided
against their wish, the “rape case” was slapped on him.
The state police
went for an appeal before the High Court against the session court’s
decision, but in its orders last month, the two-member High Court
bench, comprising Justice Uma Nath Singh and Justice AN Jindal,
refused to admit the plea, upholding the lower court’s verdict.
“I am in
consultation with my lawyers, RS Bains and Barjinder Singh, and will
proceed with the defamation case against police officials, including
IG Rajinder Singh and former Patiala SSP Paramraj Singh Umranangal,
for implicating me in a false case,” said Randhawa, adding that he
had to suffer an ordeal for five years. “My children were of
marriageable at that time,” he said.
When the police
officers saw that this case was weak, they slapped a yet another
case of an attempt to murder in
Patiala in 2004.
“In this case too, the High Court intervened and the FIR was
quashed,” said Randhawa, who is also Deputy Chairman of the Punjab
Human Rights Organisation (PHRO).
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July, 2008
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