14 booked in karate player suicide case

ALLEGATION Victim’s brother says police did not register case in a land case under pressure from minister Tript Bajwa

Kuldeep Kaur had met me regarding the case. I had also called up the SSP and asked him to take action. I am ready to face any inquiry by any agency to probe the charge of victim’s family.

TRIPT RAJINDER BAJWA, minister

BATALA: A day after 24-year-old international karate player Kuldeep Kaur committed suicide here on Wednesday, the police swung into action and booked 14 people for abetment to suicide (Section 306 of the IPC). The player had committed suicide allegedly in protest against the ‘police inaction’ against the accused in a land case her family had filed.

The family alleged the police were not taking action against the accused under political pressure.

However, the police have not taken any action against the police officers, who were accused of not taking action against the accused .

Meanwhile, brother of the deceased, Satwant Singh, an army havildar posted in Arunachal Pradesh, accused minister of rural development and panchayats and Fatehgarh Churian MLA Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa of being behind the suicide by his sister.

Talking to HT, Satwant Singh claimed that, on October 24 last year, his elder sister Balbir Kaur met Tript Bajwa in his office in Chandigarh, where he allegedly told her that he was not in a position to help her family because they“owed loyalty to Ra vi K ar an Kahlon, son of former speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon.”

He alleged that it was only under pressure of the minister that police did not arrest the accused named in the FIR lodged by them in the land case and. Later, to put pressure on them, police registered a fake case against his sister, he added. “My father has been paralysed for the past several years. Tript Bajwa knew all the facts but even then, he not only refused to help us but also branded us as Akali workers. The minister is openly influencing the cops not to take action against the accused,” said Satwant.

Victim Kuldeep Kaur’s native village of Gujarpura falls in the jurisdiction of Ghania-Ke-Bangar police station, which forms a part of the Fatehgarh Churian assembly seat.

Tripat Bajwa is the sitting Congress MLA from this seat. Nirmal Singh Kahlon has also remained a SAD legislator from Fatehgarh Churian. Tript Bajwa admitted that Balbir had met him and told him about the entire case following which he assured her that appropriate action would be taken against the accused.

“I had also called up the SSP and asked him to take suitable action,” he said. About the allegation levelled by Satwant Singh, Bajwa said “I was ready to face any inquiry by any agency the victim’s family wants and if they found me guilty, I will quit politics.”

The accused were identified as Ajaib Singh, Pargat Singh, Kulwant Singh, Karam Singh, Narinder Pal Singh, Pritam Singh, Nirmal Kaur, Sharanjeet Kaur, Jasraj Kaur, Harvinder Kaur, Billa, Heera, Tempo and Gadh, all residents of Gujjarpura.

SAD FLAYS POLICE

CHANDIGARH : SAD president Sukhbir Singh Badal has condemned ‘police inaction’ in the land case involving the victim’s family, that led to suicide by the player . The party demanded an inquiry into the ‘political interference’ by rural development minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa and others.