A court docket in Punjab’s Faridkot Thursday dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former deputy chief minister Sukhbir Singh Badal within the 2015 Kotkapura police firing incident however granted reduction to his father and former chief minister Parkash Singh Badal.

Each the Akali leaders final week had moved the Faridkot court docket for anticipatory bail. After listening to arguments on March 14, the court docket of extra district and periods decide, Faridkot had reserved its order.

The court docket dismissed the anticipatory bail plea of former deputy CM Sukhbir Singh Badal, mentioned one in every of his counsels Arshdeep Singh Cheema.

Nonetheless, the court docket granted anticipatory bail to the previous chief minister, Cheema mentioned.

The Particular Investigation Crew of Punjab Police probing the police firing case final month had filed a cost sheet in a court docket in Faridkot naming the then Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal after which Deputy Sukhbir Singh Badal and ex-DGP Sumedh Saini and others.

Sukhbir Badal and Saini have been named as “masterminds of conspiracy to be used of unlawful extreme pressure to cover the inaction” of the state on three sacrilege incidents in Faridkot. The then chief minister Badal was blamed for “facilitating the execution of the conspiracy” within the 7,000-page cost sheet.

The incidents associated to the theft of a ‘bir’ (copy) of the Guru Granth Sahib, placing up handwritten sacrilegious posters, and torn pages of the holy ebook being discovered scattered at Bargari in Faridkot in 2015.

These incidents had triggered protests and two individuals –- Gurjeet Singh and Kishan Bhagwan Singh–have been killed in Behbal Kalan and few injured at Kotkapura in Faridkot in police firing.

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