Sippy murder case: Scared, didn’t reveal earlier to have seen killing, says witness
Chandigarh, July 11
A prosecution witness in the Sippy Sidhu murder case today told the CBI court that he was “frightened” so he did not claim himself to be an eyewitness to the alleged killing in his earlier four statements.
The reply of the witness came as the defence counsel conducted his cross-examination, which continued for over eight hours.
The CBI had claimed in the chargesheet that the witness had seen Kalyani Singh, the accused, and advocate Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu, aka, Sippy Sidhu, talking on the walking track in the Sector 27 park on September 20, 2015. The CBI had claimed that the eyewitness also saw an unidentified person entering the park and firing two gunshots at Sippy Sidhu. Thereafter, he also saw Kalyani Singh firing two gunshots at the deceased.
The CBI claimed that the eyewitness also saw the accused and the unidentified person fleeing in two vehicles.
During the cross-examination, the counsel for the accused asked the witness as to why he never claimed himself to be an eyewitness to the incident in the statements given to the investigating agency in 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2020. It was only in the statement given on November 9, 2021, wherein he claimed himself to be an eyewitness to the alleged murder.
On this, the witness replied that he was “frightened”.
The CBI claimed that the eyewitness was in touch with the deceased from September 18, 2015, to September 20, 2015, in connection with installation of CCTV cameras at his house in Mohali. They were planning to purchase CCTV cameras on September 20, the day of the murder. For this purpose, he had gone to meet Sippy Sidhu.
