No clean chit given to Gurmeet Ram Rahim, others in Bargari sacrilege case: Punjab Police
The Punjab Police on Wednesday termed as baseless all allegations with regard to a clean chit to Dera Sacha Sauda head Gurmeet Ram Rahim and others in the 2015 Bargara sacrilege case.
The statement came amid reports referring to Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota, who has been given additional charge of Punjab Director General of Police (DGP) that he gave a clean chit to Gurmeet Ram Rahim while heading an SIT to investigate the Bargari sacrilege case in 2015.
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Notably, pages of Guru Granth Sahib were found scattered at Bargari village, Faridkot, on October 12, 2015, and an FIR was registered under Sections 295, 120-B of the IPC in this regard. An SIT headed by Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota, then Director Bureau of Investigation (BOI), was constituted to investigate the sacrilege case.
The spokesperson clarified that the SIT had functioned just for 20 days (October 14, 2015 to November 2, 2015), after which the case was transferred to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI).
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“The entire investigation was conducted by the CBI, not the SIT headed by Iqbal Preet Singh Sahota,” said a Punjab Police spokesperson, while adding no clean chit had been given to Gurmeet Ram Rahim or any other person.
-PTC News
