Chandigarh, November 20, 2018: The veracity and competence of the Special investigating team (SIT), probing the unprovoked 2015 police firing on peaceful anti-sacrilege protesters in Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan, becomes dubiously clumsy when it starts faulting on fundamental prerequisites of investigation nuances.
The public confidence in the purposefulness and competence of the SIT has thoroughly been eroded when it miserably failed to deliver the summons at the proper residential address of Mr. Parkash Singh Badal ? Secondly, when it is clearly stated in section 160 Cr.P.C under chapter XII of the code of criminal procedure; Provided that no male person under the age of fifteen or above the age of sixty-five years or a woman or a mentally or physically disabled person”] shall be required to attend at any place other than the place in which such male person or woman resides, then why Mr. Parkash Singh Badal was summoned for questioning at Amritsar? If the police officers of the SIT are ignorant of the statutes of code of criminal procedure then how accurately and meticulously they would probe the most sensitive matter of sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib and unprovoked police firing on peaceful anti-sacrilege protesters in 2015? or the whole exercise is just a blatant hogwash to befool the Sikh devotees.
What is the legal authenticity of the summons sent to Parkash Singh Badal by the Special investigating team; if the SIT, most laughably was to appear before him at his residence? What is the justification to summon all of them at Amritsar, if the SIT thereafter was to scum to the whims and fancies of the persons, summoned for questioning? The preposterous dillydallying of the SIT is causing anguish and the deep sense of disquiet to the Sikh devotees. Whether the present SIT is a credible instrument for highly vexed and complex criminal investigation, which is hanging in the indeterminate state and air of despondency for almost three years; is a million dollar question?