HC acquits Jagir Kaur in daughter’s death case
THE CASE FILES
CHANDIGARH: Akali leader and former SGPC chief Bibi Jagir Kaur was on Tuesday acquitted by the Punjab and Haryana high court in the case of forcible abortion and abduction of her daughter, Harpreet Kaur, who had died under mysterious circumstances in April 2000.
A division bench of justices AB Chaudhari and Kuldip Singh also acquitted three other accused — Dalwinder Kaur Dhesi, Paramjit Singh Raipur and Nishan Singh — setting aside the 2012 verdict of Patiala CBI special court which had sentenced them and Kaur to fiveyear imprisonment in the case.
“The court acquitted Bibi Jagir Kaur and three others accused in this case,” said Kaur’s counsel, senior advocate, JS Bedi.
The high court also dismissed the appeal of the CBI and complainant Kamaljit Singh, who claimed to be the husband of Kaur’s daughter Harpreet, filed against the Patiala CBI court judgement acquitting Kaur and others of murder charge.
“…the prosecution miserably failed to prove its case against all the accused persons. The judgment impugned is illegal and
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must be set aside which we do,” said the bench. Nishan, then personal security officer of Kaur, Paramjit, then political adviser to Kaur and Dhesi, a close friend, were all convicted for causing miscarriage without consent, wrongful confinement and criminal conspiracy.
“The case was conspiracy of my opponents who wanted to kill me politically and socially. However, my party leadership never sidelined me and gave me leading roles. With grace of god, I got
rid of this problem today,” Jagir Kaur told reporters during her visit to the Golden Temple after the verdict. Harpreet had reportedly been in a relationship with Kamaljit, a resident of Kapurthala district’s Begowal town. Jagir Kaur, who was then the president of the SGPC, was opposed to their marriage. At the time of her death on April 20, 2000, Harpreet was 19-years-old.