2015 Kotkapura firing: SAD chief Sukhbir Singh Badal appears before Punjab Police SIT

Earlier, the SIT had summoned Sukhbir Singh Badal on August 30, but the SAD chief did not appear before it

Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) chief Sukhbir Singh Badal on Wednesday appeared before a Punjab Police special investigation team (SIT) probing the 2015 Kotkapura police firing case.

Led by Additional Director General of Police L .K. Yadav, the SIT had summoned Mr. Badal, who was then the deputy chief minister and home minister of the State.

Earlier, the SIT had summoned Mr. Badal on August 30, but the SAD chief did not appear before it. His party had said that Mr. Badal had not been served summons.

On September 6, Mr. Badal was questioned by another SIT investigating the 2015 Behbal Kalan police firing incident.

The case relates to the theft of a 'bir' (copy) of the Guru Granth Sahib, putting up handwritten sacrilegious posters, and torn pages of the holy book being found scattered at Bargari in Faridkot in 2015.

These incidents had triggered protests, and two people, Gurjeet Singh and Krishan Bhagwan Singh, were killed in Behbal Kalan and a few were injured at Kotkapura in Faridkot in police firing.

Badal on Wednesday reached the Punjab Police Officers' Institute here around 11 a.m.