Saurabh Malik
Chandigarh, April 23
The Punjab and Haryana High Court has not only given former Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal a clean chit in the Kotkapura firing case, but also ruled that the conclusion of police firing being unprovoked was against the record. The Bench also ruled that IPS officer Kunwar Vijay Partap Singh indulged political maneuvering and misused his official position
In his 89-page judgment release on Friday, Justice Rajbir Sehrawat ruled conversation between a Chief Minister with the district administration or the State DGP during disturbed law and order situation was not sufficient to infer conspiracy to kill or injure anybody through police firing upon the protestors, unless some other material was collected by the investigating officer to establish prior meeting of minds for conspiracy and directly linking the CM to it.