Middukheda massacre: Punjab Police says Shagan Preet ‘main conspirator’


Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 6

Less than a month after the murder of Punjabi singer Sidhu Moosewala, an anticipatory bail plea was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court, the Punjab Police today submitted that there is sufficient prima facie evidence on record that he was the “main conspirator”. . In the murder case of Youth Akali Dal leader Vikramjit alias Vicky Middukheda last year.

In his status report placed before a bench of Justice Anup Chitkara, Deputy Superintendent of Police Sukhnaz Singh said: “In view of the facts and circumstances, it is clear that there is sufficient prima facie evidence on record to show that the petitioner is the main conspirator who ( Accused) had conspired with Gaurav Patial to eliminate Middukheda.

Seeking directions to dismiss the petition in the interest of justice, the DSP said that custodial interrogation of the petitioner is required to give details “on whose behalf he has conspired”. The matter will now come up for further hearing on Thursday before Justice Chitkara.

Shagan Preet Singh, making a false allegation in the case registered in August last year at the Mataur police station in Mohali district after the alleged murder of Middukheda, had argued that neither his name was there in the FIR nor his role during the investigation of about eight had come to the fore. month.

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In his status report placed before a bench of Justice Anoop Chitkara, the DSP said: “It is clear that there is sufficient prima facie evidence on record to show that the petitioner is the main conspirator, who conspired to eliminate (accused) Gaurav Patial. was hatched. Middukhera”.