Former Punjab IGP joins AAP in the presence of Kejriwal

Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh was a member of the SIT which probed the 2015 Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan police firing incidents.

Ahead of Punjab Assembly election early next year, former Inspector General of Police (IGP) Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, who was a member of the Special Investigating Team (SIT) which probed the 2015 Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan police firing incidents, joined the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Monday. Mr. Singh was inducted into the party at an event in Amritsar in the presence of Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal and Punjab AAP president Bhagwant Mann. In April, Mr. Singh took premature retirement after the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed a report by the SIT of Punjab Police (of which Mr. Kunwar was a part) into the firing incident. Later on, consequent to the orders of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Punjab government constituted a new three-member SIT and directed it to complete the investigations, preferably in six months.