Chandigarh/ Punjab (July 5, 2013): It is learnt that the Punjab Police Sub-Inspector Surjit Singh who had recently created a sensation by making claims that he was involved in several encounters during 1993 and that several of those encounters were fake, has now approached Punjab and Haryana High Court anticipating a threat to his life.
Surjit Singh has moved a petition in the High Court seeking direction of the Court for protection from Punjab police IG Paramjit Singh Gill and Rajjit Singh Hundal, SSP, Tarn Taran.
The petition is likely to come up for hearing in the high court today (July 8, 2013).
According to a news reported by the Day and Night News (DNN) “[t]he petitioner has stated that he had actively participated in four encounters first. In these encounters Sheetal Singh Mattewal, Deputy Chief of Dashmesh Regiment of Khalistan and seven others were killed. Mattewal’s encounter was real but later, his wife Narinder Kaur and two brothers were picked up and killed extra judiciously, the petition stated”.
He has also given a list of 16 other encounters, which according to his petition were fake and several persons were killed under the supervision of Paramjit Singh Gill, the then Senior Superintendent of Police, Amritsar, who has been promoted to the post of Inspector General of Police and is presently posted as Commissioner of Police, Ludhiana.