CBI arrests daughter of Himachal HC’s acting CJ in Sippy murder case
CHANDIGARH: The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Wednesday arrested Kalyani Singh, 36, the daughter of Justice Sabina Singh, the acting chief justice of the Himachal Pradesh high court, in connection with the murder of national-level shooter and corporate lawyer Sukhmanpreet Singh, alias Sippy Sidhu, in 2015 in Chandigarh.
Kalyani, who was working as assistant professor on contract basis in the home science department of Post Graduate Government College for Girls, Sector 42, Chandigarh, was arrested from her house after she was found “evasive and deceptive” along with evidence of her being present in the park.
Officials said that during investigation, the CBI found documentary evidence suggesting that Kalyani Singh and Sidhu were close and that the romantic relationship had turned sour.
Sippy was shot dead in a Sector 27 park in Chandigarh on September 20, 2015. His family had been accusing Kalyani, Sippy’s former girlfriend who was the judge’s daughter, of being involved in the murder. The family had been attributing the murder to the refusal of a marriage proposal.
The central probe agency had registered the first information report (FIR) in the killing of Sippy Sidhu on April 13, 2016, on the request of the Chandigarh administration under sections 302 (murder)/120B (criminal conspiracy), 201 (causing disappearance of evidence) of the Indian Penal Code and arms act in April 13, 2016.
Kalyani was under probe agency’s scanner for long
Kalyani Singh was under the scanner of the agency for long as it had emerged during the probe that “a woman was accompanying Sidhu’s killer. The CBI had filed an “untraced report” in 2020 in the case mentioning that it did not have enough evidence to charge sheet her but sought permission to continue investigation because of “strong suspicion on her”. During further investigation, the CBI said the involvement of Kalyani came forth.
“Accordingly, she was examined and arrested. She was produced in the court of the special judicial magistrate, Chandigarh, on Wednesday and remanded in four-day police custody,” the CBI spokesperson said.
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CBI said that the investigations so far conducted have revealed that Kalyani was in close relationship with Sippy. “She wanted to marry him but her proposal was turned down by Sippy’s family. Sippy had leaked her objectionable photos to her parents and friends, which had caused embarrassment to Kalyani and her family,” said the CBI while attributing motive to the murder.
The investigations pointed out that Kalyani on September 18, 2015 had contacted Sippy through mobile phones of other persons and compelled him to meet her in the park on Sector 27, Chandigarh, where the two had met between September 18 and September 20, the night when he was murdered.