Chandigarh: The Justice (retd) Mehtab Gill Commission has found the cases registered
during the SAD-BJP regime against AAP leader Sukhpal Singh Khaira, SAD
(A) leader Simranjit Singh Mann and Jagraon resident Sukhwinder Mithu to
be false.
In the sixth interim report, submitted to Chief
Minister Amarinder Singh today, the panel has recommended cancellation
of FIRs as relevant and action against officials responsible for
registering them.
According to an official spokesperson, in the
report, action has been recommended in 47 of the 240 cases that were
decided, with the remaining 193 dismissed for various reasons.
The panel was set up to look into "false cases" registered during the decade-long SAD-BJP rule in Punjab.
"The
report said false cases were registered on political considerations
against Sukhwinder Singh Mithu, Sukhpal Singh Khaira and Simranjit Singh
Mann," the spokesperson said.
Besides recommending action
against the guilty police officials, the panel has recommended
cancellation of a sedition case against Mann, as well as cancellation of
the 17 FIRs against Khaira and his supporters.
Sukhwinder Mithu,
a member Kaunke panchayat in Jagraon, was falsely implicated in eight
cases after he complained against the relatives of his wife Jaswinder
Kaur Jassi, a Canadian resident, who was killed in 2000.
While
his wife's mother and maternal uncle, along with some police officials,
were convicted in the murder case, Mithu was acquitted in all the eight
cases against him, report stated.
The panel had found 182 police
officers guilty of trying to frame Mithu in false cases to harass him
into withdrawing the complaint against his wife's relatives.
In
the case of Simranjit Singh Mann, the commission has found that he
neither gave any speech nor did he utter a word at the 'Sarbat Khalsa'
held to protest against the desecration of a holy book in Bargarhi
village of Faridkot on November 10, 2015.
The sedition case was
falsely slapped against Mann by the Akalis and Akali leader Bibi Jagir
Kaur, the commission's report stated.
The panel has also endorsed
the findings of police that all the 17 cases registered against Khaira
and his supporters between 2007-2008 were false.
The Commission has so far decided 895 of the 4,349 complaints received by it.
PTI
