Around two months after the sensational Abohar killing, the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a notice of motion to the State of Punjab on a petition seeking a CBI probe into the incident on the grounds that the investigating officers, senior police officials and politicians were allegedly involved in the crime.
CHANDIGARH – Around two months after the sensational Abohar killing, the Punjab and Haryana High Court issued a notice of motion to the State of Punjab on a petition seeking a CBI probe into the incident on the grounds that the investigating officers, senior police officials and politicians were allegedly involved in the crime.
The notice by Justice MMS Bedi came on the petition filed by the victim’s parents. The petitioners alleged that the local police “have become a puppet in the hands of Shiv Lal Doda, Amit Doda and other criminals who are involved in the merciless killing”.
The counsel for the petitioner, Surinder Pal Singh Tinna, pleaded that an FIR was registered against the victim, Bhim Tank, pertaining to an incident of rape at 04:17 pm whereas he was murdered the same day around noon.
Seeking directions for handing over the investigation (in the FIR dated December 12, 2015, registered for murder and other offences under IPC Sections 302, 307, 326, 148 and 149) to the CBI, Tinna contended the probe was “not being conducted fairly”. The SHO of the area concerned too had been suspended, he pointed out.
The counsel said the case needed to be handed over to an independent agency or the CBI “so as to investigate it in accordance with law”. He said the petitioners’ son was brutally killed by chopping off his hands and legs. The hand of another victim too was chopped off.
Bhim Tank used to work for Shiv Lal, a liquor baron who allegedly started nursing a grudge against the victim after he gave up his job. Bhim and his aide Gurjant Singh, alias Janta, were allegedly attacked by Shiv Lal’s henchmen at his farmhouse in Abohar.
