SIT IS A CHARADE TO SHIELD THE BADALS: BAJWA

Chandigarh: 11: A massive cover-up operation is underway to shield and protect the business interests of the Badal family and the recently constituted SIT is nothing more than a charade to frustrate the course of justice. Condemning the formation SIT, S Partap Singh Bajwa, President PPCC said that It is important to indicate that even before the commencement of the investigation by the SIT, the Punjab DGP vehemently defended the Badal owned bus and gave it a clean chit despite contradictory evidence in the form of eyewitness accounts narrating the brutal manner in which the Badal bus crushed the deceased. The SIT and the Punjab Police have been reduced to a private militia of the Badal family which functions to protects and facilitate their business empire. Hence to expect a fair and an independent investigation by the SIT, into an incident involving the transport company of the Deputy Chief Minister cum Home Minister of Punjab is merely illusory.

Bajwa further said that immediately after the incident their were reports that suggested that the Punjab Police in collusion with the Akali goons was actively destroying evidence at the crime scene and was interfering with the mangled remains of the scooter in order to erase any sign of culpability of the Badal owned bus. The zealous manner in which the Punjab Police has acted to shield the Badal owned bus only highlights the malaise and lawlessness that exists in Punjab. Therefore under the given circumstances, it is of utmost importance that the Chief Minister of Punjab orders a judicial inquiry by a sitting Judge of the Hon’ble high court into various aspects of the incident including the reports with regard to destruction of evidence at the crime scene under the Commissions of inquiry Act, 1952 and the Police should immediately charge the driver of the Badal owned bus under Section 304 Part II (Culpable Homicide not amounting to Murder) of the IPC and the Directors of the Transport Company i.e. Sukhbir Singh Badal under Section 304 A of the IPC read with Section 201(Destruction of Evidence) and 120-B (Criminal Conspiracy) of the IPC.