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A criminal force?
Many blots on policemen’s khaki
by Punyapriya Dasgupta
THE ghost of an outspoken judge is haunting the Indian establishment. A pronouncement by Justice Anand Narain Mulla of the Allahabad High Court nearly half a century ago is often quoted even today. He said: “There is not a single lawless group in the whole of the country whose record of crime comes anywhere near the record of that single organised unit which is known as the Indian Police Force..”
Many blots on policemen’s khaki
by Punyapriya Dasgupta
THE ghost of an outspoken judge is haunting the Indian establishment. A pronouncement by Justice Anand Narain Mulla of the Allahabad High Court nearly half a century ago is often quoted even today. He said: “There is not a single lawless group in the whole of the country whose record of crime comes anywhere near the record of that single organised unit which is known as the Indian Police Force..”
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HC acts upon plea of blast accused
Had claimed cops killed co-accused kin
Tribune News Service
Had claimed cops killed co-accused kin
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, November 2
Acting on an application filed by Davinder Singh Bhullar, an accused in the Saini blast case, claiming that his father and uncle along with other accused in the matter were eliminated by the police, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion to the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
Acting on an application filed by Davinder Singh Bhullar, an accused in the Saini blast case, claiming that his father and uncle along with other accused in the matter were eliminated by the police, a Division Bench of the Punjab and Haryana High Court today issued notice of motion to the Central Bureau of Investigation and the Union Territory of Chandigarh.
The Bench, comprising Justice M.S. Gill and Justice Nawab Singh, also fixed November 6 as the next date of hearing in the matter after senior advocate R.S. Rai accepted the notice on UT’s behalf and Rajan Gupta took it on the CBI’s behalf.
Sentenced to death in another case, Bhullar is currently lodged in Tihar Jail and his mercy petition is lying before the President.
In his application, filed soon after the CBI was asked by the High Court to look into the whereabouts of the proclaimed offenders, Bhullar sought permission to hand over evidence to the court in affidavit form in a sealed cover.
The evidence will help the CBI reach the conclusion about whether the accused, Balwant Singh Multani, Navneet Singh and Manjit Singh were eliminated by the police.
Seeking directions for referring the matter of the probable elimination of his two relatives to the CBI in light of probe orders, he asserted that his father Balwant Singh Bhullar and maternal uncle Manjit Singh had also been abducted by the Chandigarh Police when Multani was picked up.
Going into the background of the matter, Bhullar stated that his hand was suspected in the August 1991 blast in which the then UT senior superintendent of police Sumedh Singh Saini was injured, while three other policemen lost their lives.
As he was not available, Chandigarh Police took his uncle and subsequently his father in custody. Bhullar added that he now wanted to bring to the court’s knowledge that along with his two relatives, others, including Multani were in illegal custody
