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(Says CM and HM held a secret meeting in the Raj Bhawan along with DGP, Home Secretary, AG, SIT Chairman and retired police officer Ranbir Singh Khattra and others to hatch conspiracy to implicate the SAD President)
(Says former IG Khattra has prepared a Cong worker – Rajinder Kaur Meemsa as a false witness against the SAD President)
(Urge Governor to take note of the conspiracy and take action in the matter)
(Demands entire sacrilege probe be monitored by a sitting judge of the high court)
Chandigarh, November 12 2021
The Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) today while blowing the lid off the Congress government’s criminal conspiracy to implicate SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal in a false case by holding a meeting on October 22 in the annexe of the Punjab Raj Bhawan, demanded the entire investigation into the sacrilege case be monitored by a sitting judge of the Punjab and Haryana high court.
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Making the secret meeting public, senior SAD leader Maheshinder Singh Grewal along with Prof Prem Singh Chandumajra and Dr Daljit Cheema said chief minister Charanjit Singh Channi and home minister Sukhjinder Randhawa were responsible for hatching this conspiracy by holding a secret meeting in the Raj Bhawan annexe between 11.30 am to 1.30 pm on October 22. He said the meeting was attended by DGP IPS Sahota, Home Secretary Anurag Verma, Advocate General APS Deol, SIT Chairman SPS Parmar, AIG RS Sohal, SSP Mukhwinder Bhullar, DSP Lakhbir Singh, and Inspector Dalbir Singh, retired police officers – R S Khattra and Sulakhan Singh and legislators Kushaldeep Dhillon and Kulbir Zira.
Mr Maheshinder Grewal said the purpose of the meeting was to neutralize the anti-incumbency being faced by the Congress government by diverting the attention of the people by fixing the political opposition, especially the Badal family by implicating it in false cases. He said former IG R S Khattra had been entrusted with the responsibility of creating deposition through false witnesses against the Badal family. He said Khattra had agreed to do this after home minister Randhawa brokered the deal between the retired police officer, who was very close to him, and the chief minister. “Khattra has been promised a constitutional post and his son has been promised a Congress ticket from Patiala or Malwa region”.
Mr Grewal said as part of this deal Khattra had prepared a Congress worker – Rajinder Kaur Meemsa to get a false case filed against the SAD President. “The conspiracy is that Rajinder will hold a press conference and ring up the DGP to ask why her complaint is not being registered. The cooked up complaint is that the Congress worker, who had temporarily even joined the SAD, had visited Mr Sukhbir Badal’s residence in Badal before the 2017 elections where she had witnessed the SAD president in the company of three Dera workers”. He said subsequently Rajinder claimed she had seen the same leaders in Mr Badal’s residence after the 2017 elections and had heard Mr Sukhbir Badal telling that “the new government is ours and I will not let anything wrong happen to you”.
The SAD leaders including Prof Chandumajra and Dr Cheema while detailing the entire conspiracy requested the Punjab Governor, whom they will meet shortly, to take appropriate action in the matter. They urged the Governor to provide the party with the CCTV footage of the Raj Bhawan annexe as on October 22. They also demanded the chief minister and the home minister should disclose why a meeting of the SIT was held in such a secret fashion and why retired police officers had been associated with it. They also asked why the CM and HM were interfering in the probe as well as functioning of the SIT when the high court had stipulated that there should not be any interference in the working of the SIT after junking the manipulated probe conducted by former IG Kunwar Vijay Pratap.
The SAD also asked retired IG R S Khattra to explain his conduct as he had earlier headed the SIT during the course of which he had claimed that the previous SAD-BJP government did not interfere in the functioning of the probe. They said Khattra should tell why he had not investigated the issues being raised now earlier. ‘Did he conduct a dishonest investigation earlier or was becoming part of one now?” they asked. The leaders also asked if there was any link between the recent resignation of his son Satbir Khattra, who had earlier contested the 2017 assembly elections on the party ticket, from the SAD with his latest actions.
The SAD also asked DGP IPS Sahota if he stood with his earlier statement during the erstwhile SAD government about those involved in the sacrilege. “Mr Sahota even held a press conference on this issue. He should tell what was right. His earlier press conference or the contents of the conspiracy being hatched now?
The SAD warned the Congress government not to use illegal means to settle political scores by fabricating false evidence against the top SAD leadership even as it asserted that the SAD would not be cowed down by such intimidatory tactics. They said the Congress party had earlier created hurdles in unraveling the sacrilege case by forcing the SAD-BJP government to hand over the case to the CBI. The leaders said now the Channi government was playing into the hands of the centre by dividing Punjabis and had even gone to the extent of tapping the phones of the SAD President. They said they would also move a privilege motion in this regard in the forthcoming parliamentary session.
