Jalandhar, August 29, 2023: As per media reports, former minister and senior Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) leader Bikram Singh Majithia today demanded registration of abetment to suicide case against the SHO and other police officials responsible for the suicide of two brothers who jumped into the Beas river after one of them was thrashed in the police station after removal and insult of his turban.
According to the news published in The Tribune, addressing a press conference here, the senior SAD leader said it was shocking that the police was claiming that CCTV cameras of the concerned police station were not working on August 15. “It is clear that a conspiracy has been hatched to dilute the case by deleting the video footage.
Majithia said that even the Supreme court had made it clear in two different cases that every part of a police station should be under the lens of CCTV cameras. He said it was not possible that the CCTV cameras were not working on Independence day when security is always enhanced in the state and country.
He said instead of taking action on the complaint of a lady filed against her in laws SHO Navdeep Singh and other police staff including lady constable Jiwanjot Kaur and ASI Balwinder Kumar mercilessly beat up Manavjit Singh Dhillon. “His turban was tossed in the air and he was even refused water”.
He said Jashanjit Singh Dhillon could not bear treatment meted out to his brother Manavjit Singh Dhillon and he headed for the Beas river. He said despite being persuaded by his brother Manavjit and a friend to relent he refused and ultimately both jumped into the Beas. “It is shocking that even after a written appeal by the father of both brothers to chief minister Bhagwant Mann and DGP Gaurav Yadav for justice in the case both of them had maintained a studious silence on the issue”.
Bikram Majithia said the police even failed to locate the bodies of both brothers and the family itself hired divers but still bodies had not been traced. He said now the police was trying to prove that bodies were untraceable because the law says that until bodies are traced no action can be taken against anybody.
Majithia also declared that he would meet the Jalandhar Commissioner of Police and DGP to seek justice for both brothers and if the police failed to act in the matter the SAD would approach the Punjab and Haryana High court on behalf of the aggrieved family.
