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19 cops given life in staged shootout case
after 20 years
Thursday March 29, 2012 11:05:30 PM,
IANS
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Ghaziabad:
As many as 19 policemen were sentenced by a CBI court here
Thursday to life imprisonment in the case of killing of a gurdwara
sewadar in a staged shootout in 1992.
Seventeen of the cops will serve the sentence since two have
already died of natural causes.
The case goes back to 1992, when the convicted policemen belonging
to the Uttar Pradesh police abducted Jaswinder Singh alias Jassa,
a "Sewadar" (worker) at Gurdwara Rakabganj in New Delhi and shot
him dead in a staged shootout in Bijnore district of Uttar
Pradesh.
The cops claimed to have recovered an AK-56 assault rifle and a
double-barrelled gun from Jassa's possession. They further claimed
that Jassa had robbed the double-barrelled gun from a local man.
After the news reached Delhi, Jassa's relative filed a writ
petition before the Supreme Court in which he claimed that his
relative Jaswinder was abducted by the Uttar Pradesh police and
was shot dead in a staged gunbattle. On his request, the court
ordered the case to be investigated by the CBI court in 1993.
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