Khalra Panel For Prosecuting Gill

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Khalra panel for prosecuting Gill in rights activist's murder

Jalandhar | December 10, 2005 5:46:10 PM IST

The Khalra Committee has urged the CBI to file a supplementary charge sheet in the murder case of human rights activist Jaswant Singh Khalra for prosecuting then Director General of Police (DGP) K P S Gill for his alleged involvement in the killing.

Talking to reporters here today, Committee spokesman Daljit Singh said the demand was made yesterday by Mr Khalra's widow Mrs Paramjit Kaur in an application to the CBI.

Mr Singh said the evidence submitted before the special CBI court in Patiala which held trial of the case, had established Mr Gill's involvement as ''real conspirator'' in the abduction and killing of Mr Khalra in September 1995.

Mr Singh said the court had accepted the evidence but since Mr Gill was not made an accused in the case he could not be prosecuted.

The special CBI court had recently convicted six of the nine accused, including a Deputy Superintendent of Punjab Police, in the case. While two convicts including the DSP were awarded lifeterm, four others got seven year sentence. Two accused in the case had died sometime back and one of was discharged by the trial court.

The Committee had also urged the CBI to file an appeal before the Punjab and Haryana High Court for more stringent and equal punishment to all six accused in the case.