Cops Fail To Crack SAD Leader’s Murder Case

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MOGA – Three weeks after 72-year-old Akali leader Gurdeep Singh Gill was shot at by two motorcycle-borne youths, the police have failed to make any headway in the case.

Gill was shot at on July 8 from a close range near his house. He succumbed to his injuries at a hospital in Ludhiana on July 18. Though the police took away the hard drive of a CCTV camera installed by a Gill’s neighbour to get some clues, it failed to identify the faces of the assailants. The police reportedly deleted the video while extracting the file from the hard drive.

Sources said the police picked up four persons for questioning, but nothing concrete came out.

Param Gill, the younger son of the deceased Akali leader, who is an American film-maker and actor, alleged that the police was not taking the case seriously. “I think the police are working under political pressure. The intra-party politics within the Akali Dal at the local level is coming in the way of solving this case,” he said. Param has directed and acted in “Politics of Love”, “Hotel Hollywood” and “Rockin Meera”.

Gill was an influential leader who remained chairman of Moga Market Committee and Moga Improvement Trust during the previous Congress government. He later joined the Akali Dal.