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Chandigarh, May 22: The Punjab government might have realised the snowballing effect that the controversy would trigger but provocation has already been provided with the orders to reinstate controversial cop Gurmeet Singh Pinky which had to be withdrawn within four days on May 20.
Pinky was a police ‘cat’ before his absorption in the police. The Punjab police had come up with this strategy of deploying ‘cats’ to eliminate militants.
Behind the bars in a case of murder of an innocent youth, he was pre-maturely released last year in June at the time when the non-Akali Sikh groups had launched a campaign for the release of the Sikhs languishing in jails in the cases relating to militancy period and some of them are now too old. Octogenarian Surat Singh Khalsa is presently on an indefinite fast for the same purpose.
Pinky was arrested for killing one Avtar Singh in Ludhiana in 2001 after a minor altercation.
The order for his reinstatement was issued by Deputy Inspector General of Police Gurinder Singh Dhillon. However, there could be more than meets the eye. Dhillon has been transferred.
