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High Court reserves decision in Jaspal Singh Gurdaspur’s case

August 23, 2014 | By Parmjeet Singh

Chandigarh/ Punjab (August 23, 2014): According to information available with the Sikh Siyasat News (SSN), the Punjab and Harayna High Court reserved it’s decision in Jaspal Singh Gurdaspur’s case. This case related to an incident dated 29 March 2012 in which the Punjab police had open fire at a gathering of peacefully protesting Sikhs in Gurdaspur that had resulted in killing of an engineering student Jaspal Singh, while another Sikh youth Ranjit Singh was seriously injured.

For last few days, a division bench of Punjab and Haryana High Court comprising Chief Justice Ashutosh Mohanta and H. S. Sidhu was hearing arguments on final report submitted by the state in this case.

The Punjab police had initially said that Jaspal Singh Gurdaspur was not hit by a bullet fired from Punjab police’s weapons. It had claimed that he was hit be a bullet supposedly fired from a private A.K. 47. But the forensic laboratory report established the fact that Jaspal Singh was hit by a bullet fired from Punjab police A. K. 47.

In it’s final report the Punjab government had absolved Punjab police officers of any responsibility for the killing of Jaspal Singh Gurdaspur saying that the police personnel had fired the bullets in air that might have changed it’s direction and then hit Jaspal Singh.

The court may pronounce it’s decision in coming days.

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Related Topics: Punjab and Haryana High Court, Punjab Police, Shaheed Jaspal Singh Gurdaspur

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