Badals against state agencies probing sacrilege cases: Tript

MINISTER SAYS BADAL FAMILY PRESSING HOME MINISTER TO ENSURE THAT CBI DOESN’T HAND OVER PROBE BACK TO STATE

AMRITSAR: Rural development and panchayats minister Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa has said that Akali Dal chief Sukhbir Singh Badal and his wife Harsimrat Kaur, who is a Union minister, are pressing home minister Rajnath Singh to ensure that the CBI does not hand over investigations into sacrilege and police firing incidents back to Punjab government. Bajwa was interacting with the media after paying obeisance at Golden Temple here on Saturday.

Replying to a query, the minister said the Badal family doesn’t want a state agency to probe the sacrilege and police firing cases.

The Punjab Assembly had passed a resolution on Tuesday to take investigations back from the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), with chief minister Amarinder Singh announcing a special investigation team (SIT) to probe the cases.

On the statewide protests staged by Akali Dal, Bajwa said the SAD leaders have the right to protest but they are not sincere and the protests are nothing but a eyewash just to show that they are innocent.

“If they don’t believe in Justice Ranjit Singh Commission report, they should believe in Justice Jora Singh Commission that was constituted during their regime. Why did not they make the report of this commission public? This commission also stated the truth, only Akalis are liars,” he said.