Threemember SIT to probe karate player’s suicide case
The team will probe the circumstances leading to suicide by Kuldeep Kaur
: Taking a serious note of the allegations levelled by the family of karate player Kuldeep Kaur, who committed suicide two days ago allegedly after being denied justice by the Batala police, inspector general (IG) of police (border) Surinder Pal Singh Parmar set up a threemember special investigation team (SIT) on Friday to probe the circumstances that led the player to commit suicide.
Parmar said in a press release that Amandeep Kaur, deputy superintendent of police (headquarters), Amritsar rural, is the chairperson of the SIT and inspectors Palwinderjit Kaur of Gurdaspur and Bhupinder Kaur of Amritsar are its members . He said the SIT will fix responsibility for the lapse and submit its report within 15 days.
The SIT will also examine the circumstances under which Kuldeep Kaur committed suicide. DIG (border range), Amritsar, will supervise the investigations on daily basis and periodically apprise the IG of the progress.
On Thursday the player’s brother Satwant Singh had accused minister of panchayats and rural development Tript Rajinder Singh Bajwa and former chairman of the market committee Balwinder Singh Kotla Bhama of pressuring the police to delay the arrest of the accused, who made a murderous attack on his family members over a land dispute. He added Bajwa refused to help them by terming his family as “SAD loyalists close to Ravi Karan Kahlon, son of former speaker Nirmal Singh Kahlon.”
SHO Paramjit Singh, who was allegedly blamed by the deceased’s family, has been shifted to the police lines by senior superintendent of police (SSP) Opinderjit Singh Ghuman. Confirming this, the SSP said that he had issued transfer orders to ensure “free and fair” investigations in the case.
The orders came minutes after IG (border) set up the SIT. How- ever, Satwant Singh, brother of the deceased, said that the transfer was just an “eyewash.”