Practically 10 months after the Punjab Police registered two circumstances in reference to the TV interviews of jailed gangster Lawrence Bishnoi aired in March 2023, the Punjab Authorities on Friday suspended seven policemen, together with two deputy superintendents of police for ‘dereliction of responsibility’.
As per the orders issued by the state House Division on Friday, those that have been suspended are the then DSP (Investigation) Gursher Singh (now posted as DSP ninth battalion Punjab Armed Police, Amritsar); Mohali Financial Offences Wing (EOW) DSP Sammar Vaneet; Crime Investigation Company (CIA) Kharar Sub-Inspector Reena; Anti Gangster Process Pressure (AGTF) sub inspectors (each native rank) Jagatpal Jangu and Shaganjit Singh; then responsibility officer assistant sub inspector Mukhtiar Singh; after which CIA Kharar night time Moharrir Head Constable (MHC) having native rank Om Parkash.
The suspension order, whereas referring to the First Info Report (FIR) registered on January 5 this yr, famous that the report of the Particular Investigation Staff headed by Prabodh Kumar, Particular Director Basic of Police (Punjab State Human Rights Fee) had noticed that there was dereliction or lapse of responsibility on the a part of the policemen in query.
In August, the Particular Investigation Staff (SIT) submitted earlier than the Punjab and Haryana Excessive Courtroom that the primary interview of Bishnoi was carried out on the night time of September 3-4, 2022, on the CIA premises in Kharar in Mohali district and the second interview came about whereas Bishnoi was in Rajasthan. Subsequently, the second FIR was transferred to Rajasthan for additional investigations. The TV interviews in query have been aired by a personal channel in March 2023.
