Three cops booked for culpable homicide

Amritsar, July 17

Seven months after an alleged carjacker was reportedly shot by the CIA staff of the city police, the Amritsar rural police have booked three Assistant Sub Inspectors on charges of culpable homicide not amounting to murder and destruction of evidence.

Inderjit Singh, a resident of Hoshiarpur, was allegedly gunned down on December 8, 2020, near Manawala toll plaza. Nevertheless, his family members had termed the incident a brutal and planned murder.

The CIA staff was holding a naka at Manawala toll plaza, which falls in the jurisdiction of the Amritsar rural police, following snatching of a car from a DSP-rank officer in the Putlighar area here when they received the information from the Ambala police that a man had snatched an SUV from there and was heading towards Amritsar via Ludhiana and Jalandhar.

The police have booked ASI Vinod Kumar, ASI Darshan Singh and ASI Surinder Kumar, who have been placed under suspension.

The case was registered following an inquiry conducted by SPS Parmar, IG, border range. As per details, Maninderpal Singh, brother of the deceased, had filed a writ petition in the High Court after the police registered a case under Sections 307, 279, 353, 286, 379 and 411 of the IPC against Inderjit at the Jandiala police station immediately after he was shot at and left critically injured. He was admitted to Guru Nanak Dev Hospital, where he succumbed.

Parmar, in his report, pointed out that the police party used “excessive force” by indiscriminately firing bullets at the SUV, which Inderjit was driving. Two bullets pierced Inderjit, leading to his death. — TNS