SIT probes Badal’s role in 2015 police firing

SAD supports leader; raises questions against Cong. leaders

Former Punjab Deputy Chief Minister and president of Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) Sukhbir Singh Badal was on Saturday questioned by a Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Punjab police, probing the 2015 Kotkapura police firing incident in Punjab’s Faridkot. Mr. Badal appeared before the SIT at the Punjab Police Officers Institute here. Several senior SAD leaders also reached the Institute in support of their leader. The party said that Congress leaders Rahul Gandhi, Sunil Jakhar and Navjot Sidhu had replaced the three-member SIT and had already indicted former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and SAD President Sukhbir Singh Badal in the Kotkapura firing case. It said the Kotkapura incident was probably the only incident in the world in which the SIT wanted to know who ordered the firing after the relevant competent authority — the SDM — had already declared that he had ordered it. “It’s like the SIT asking the SDM not to disclose that he had ordered the firing because it wanted to blame the Badal family for the same.”