Akalis role in scuttling probe exposed: Capt

CHANDIGARH : Chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Thursday alleged that within months of the Akalis walking out of the Union government, the CBI handed to the state police papers relating to the sacrilege cases, which clearly exposed that the SAD had been scuttling the process to prevent their complicity in the cases from being exposed. Amarinder termed the handing over of the case files as a victory for the state government and an endorsement of its stand that the CBI had, all these months, been trying to scuttle the investigation by the SIT of Punjab Police at behest of the SAD, which was part of the ruling NDA at the Centre till September 2020.“It is clear now that Harsimrat Badal, as Union minister, had been pressurising the central agency to obstruct the SIT probe by refusing to hand over the case files as she knew that her party’s role in the entire affair would be exposed once the police take the investigation to its logical conclusion,” the CM alleged in a statement. The documents and files relating to the cases were handed over to the Punjab Police.

Stop trying to hide your failures: SAD to Amarinder

The SAD on Thursday asked chief minister Capt Amarinder Singh to stop trying to hide his failure to do anything to bring those who had committed sacrilege against Guru Granth Sahib to book.

SAD leader Daljit Singh Cheema accused the chief minister of joining the Bjpled central government to resort to a blame-game exercise to divert attention away from the farmers’ agitation.