Hold time-bound inquiry, says AAP

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, August 30

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), Punjab, said it had lost all hopes of justice in the cases of desecration of Guru Granth Sahib and Behbal Kalan-Kotkapura firing, given the way the investigations by the Central and state government agencies had been conducted.

In a joint statement issued on Friday, Leader of the Opposition in the Assembly, Harpal Singh Cheema, Deputy Leader of Opposition Sarabjit Kaur Manuke, core committee chairman Budh Ram, Kultar Singh Sandhwan, Prof Baljinder Kaur, Rupinder Kaur Ruby, Jai Krishan Singh Rori, Manjit Singh Bilaspur and Kulwant Singh Pandori (all MLAs), said successive governments had miserably failed to assuage the hurt sentiments of people.

Cheema and other leaders of the party demanded that officials posing roadblocks in the investigations should be shown the door and the probe be made time-bound. They said if Capt Amarinder Singh failed to do so, it would be presumed that he was delaying the delivery of justice to save the Badals.

They said the special investigative teams set up by the Punjab and Central governments were engaged in offering a protective coverage to the ‘real’ culprits, saying that whenever a finger was pointed towards the Badals, the agencies chose to go into an overdrive to protect them.