The Chandigarh District Court docket has summoned the investing officer (IO) of town police, issuing bailable warrants in opposition to him, for not submitting a contemporary standing report in reference to the extradition of absconding Balraj Singh Randhawa, an accused within the homicide of Akansh Sen.
“Standing report was not filed by the IO. IO was not current. In these circumstances, let IO Inspector Ashok Kumar be summoned via bailable warrants within the sum of Rs 10,000 with one surety for January 9, 2025,” reads the court docket order.
Based on the FIR, Akansh Sen, nephew of former Himachal Pradesh chief minister Virbhdra Singh, was run over by a BMW automotive pushed by Balraj Singh Randhawa and the co-driver Harmehtab Singh, alias Farid, requested Randhawa “to kill Sen”, in Sector 9, Chandigarh, on the night time of February 9, 2017.
Harmehtab is the grandson of the erstwhile Patiala and East Punjab States Union (PEPSU) chief minister Gian Singh Rarewala and Randhawa, the son of a former sarpanch of Fatehgarh Sahib, has already been declared a proclaimed offender (PO) by the Court docket in 2017, as had been absconding because the incident happened. Harmehtab was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment within the case by the trial Court docket in Chandigarh in November 2019.
The Chandigarh Police have already submitted a plea within the Court docket for the attachment of Randhawa’s property when the Court docket was listening to an utility filed by Akansh’s father Arun Sen, in search of instructions to the Chandigarh Police to Tracie Randhawa and to provoke extradition proceedings for him from Canada.
Throughout a latest listening to, Judicial Justice of the Peace First Class (JMFC) Kaushal Kumar Yadav issued bailable warrants in opposition to Investigating Officer (IO) Ashok Kumar over not submitting the standing report.
Within the earlier standing report into the matter, the Chandigarh Police submitted earlier than the Court docket that in the course of the investigation, it was discovered the accused had not travelled on the passport issued to him earlier than the incident.
The police additional submitted the matter was taken up with Interpol and the placement of the accused was confirmed to be Canada.
“On affirmation of his location, a proposal has already been ready for the extradition of Balraj Singh Randhawa and the executive queries are being rectified with none delay.
The property of Randhawa had been hooked up…on November 8, 2024. A mail was obtained from the Ministry of Exterior Affairs, intimating the extradition request regarding Balraj Singh Randhawa, an Indian Nationwide from Canada to India, has been forwarded to the Excessive Fee of India in Ottawa on October 30, 2024, via a Particular Diplomatic Bag,” the police had acknowledged in its earlier standing report filed earlier than the Court docket.
The Court docket had, thus, requested for a contemporary standing report on this connection, however the Chandigarh Police officer didn’t file a contemporary standing report, following which the Court docket issued bailable warrants in opposition to the Investigating Officer.
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