No clean chit given to Gurmeet Ram Rahim in sacrilege cases: Punjab police
Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, September 29
Official spokesperson of Punjab Police on Wednesday trashed and termed all the allegations about giving clean chit to Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim as bogus and baseless.
The statement came amid the news reports referring to Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota, who has been given additional charge of Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab that he gave clean chit to Gurmeet Ram Rahim while heading an SIT to investigate the Bargari sacrilege cases in 2015.
Notably, ‘Angs’ of Sri Guru Granth Sahib were found scattered in Bargari village on October 12, 2015 and FIR was registered under Sections 295, 120-B of IPC at police station, Bajakhana.
An SIT headed by Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota, then Director Bureau of Investigation (BOI), was constituted to investigate the sacrilege case at Bargari.
The spokesperson clarified that the SIT had functioned just for 20 days (from October 14 to November 2, 2015), after which the case was transferred to Central bureau of Investigation (CBI).
“Entire investigation was conducted by the CBI not the SIT headed by Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota,” said the spokesperson, while adding no clean chit has been given to Gurmeet Ram Rahim or any other person.
