Sidhu Moosewala murder case: No bail to Punjab policeman who ‘helped’ accused flee from custody
Punjab and Haryana High Court said that the bail consideration should be dealt with in a manner that protects the faith of common people.
Sidhu Moosewala murder case latest news, Punjab and Haryana High Court hearing: The Punjab and Haryana High Court rejected the bail plea to the dismissed Punjab Police Sub-Inspector, who allegedly helped gangster Deepak, alias Tinu, an accused in the murder of Sidhu Moosewala, in absconding from police custody.
Punjab and Haryana High Court said that the bail consideration should be dealt with in a manner that protects the faith of the common people.
“Whether, a protector of law who flouted the law to help anti-social elements should be brought back to the society by the grant of regular bail, especially when the prosecution witnesses are yet to be examined, and it cannot be ruled out that the petitioner, in the case granted the benefit of regular bail, will not interfere in the process of law to stall the trial,” the single bench of Justice Harsimran Singh Sethi said while rejecting the bail plea of CIA Sub-Inspector Pritpal Singh.
It was alleged that while Deepak Tinu was in the custody of the Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) he escaped with the help of Pritpal.
Pritpal was reportedly booked under sections 222, 224, 225-A, 212, 216, and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and sections 25, 54, and 59 of the Arms Act in Mansa district in October 2022.
Seeking bail for dismissed Punjab Police Sub-Inspector Pritpal Singh, his counsel argued that the offenses against the petitioner were triable by the Magistrate, therefore, he was entitled to the grant of regular bail keeping in view the custody he had already undergone.
Opposing the same, the state counsel said, “The petitioner was a police officer, who was entrusted the custody of an undertrial gangster for interrogation, but the petitioner facilitated the escape of undertrial gangster Deepak, alias Tinu. Also, the petitioner took the undertrial gangster from the police station to his residential quarter, without having jurisdiction to do so, and from where the undertrial was allowed to flee the custody of the police.”
The state counsel further added that it was stated that “illegal weapons were recovered from his residential quarter, which showed how a protector of law was behaving while discharging his duties as a police officer”.
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