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CHANDIGARH: Punjab and Haryana precocious court's exoneration of jailed Dera Sacha Sauda main Gurmeet Ram Rahim connected March 7 successful the 2002 execution of writer Ram Chander Chhatrapati comes with a scathing indictment of CBI's probe - coercion of a cardinal witness, nonaccomplishment to cross-examine the constabulary serviceman who recorded the victim's dying declaration and a conspiracy space built connected grounds that couldn't basal scrutiny.Journalist whitethorn person been murdered by immoderate followers of the Dera head: HCThe part seat of Chief Justice Sheel Nagu and Justice Vikram Aggarwal said Chhatrapati whitethorn person been murdered by immoderate followers of the Dera head, noting that it wasn’t uncommon for radical driven by “excessive and single-minded zeal” to “cross ineligible boundaries successful the sanction of faith”. “The proceedings tribunal should person intimately examined whether determination was overwhelming grounds straight implicating the Dera chief, oregon whether the transgression could person been carried retired independently by immoderate of his staunch followers,” states the 113-page order, made nationalist Monday connected the court’s website.In its hurry to wrapper up the case, CBI forced the witnesser mentioned successful the bid — Ram Rahim’s erstwhile operator Khatta Singh — into making a connection that compromised the integrity of the probe, the seat said.It besides flagged the lack of Haryana Police SI Ram Chander from the witnesser basal arsenic a glaring illustration of the prosecution’s questionable “methodology”. The serviceman had recorded Chhatrapati’s connection astatine PGI-Rohtak connected Oct 26, 2002, earlier helium died of gunshot wounds.
“It is highly unusual that this precise important witnesser was fixed up =by the prosecution arsenic being unnecessary,” the bid states. “In the sentiment of this court, helium was the astir important witness… In truthful acold arsenic Ram Rahim is concerned, since the complaint is lone that of transgression conspiracy, the mentation of SI Ram Chander would beryllium of utmost importance.
”The judges said the volition whitethorn person been to implicate the Dera main successful the journalist’s murder, which “was not being fulfilled with the connection recorded by SI Ram Chander”.
“In immoderate case, uncertainty is created successful the caput of the tribunal erstwhile specified an important connection is not brought connected record, and specified an important witnesser is not examined. The payment of the uncertainty needfully indispensable spell to the accused,” states the acquittal order.Conflicting statements by Khatta Singh, too, formed uncertainty connected Ram Rahim’s engagement successful the murder, the seat said. “He (Khatta) chose to stay soundless for a fig of years and past kept tossing from 1 broadside to the different similar a ping-pong ball.
Even connected Dec 26, 2006, erstwhile helium opened up for the archetypal time, helium did not implicate the Dera main and talked lone astir the Ranjit Singh execution case,” the bid states. “If helium was nether threat, it is not understood wherefore helium was nether menace lone successful this lawsuit and not successful the Ranjit Singh case, successful which helium stated that a conspiracy had been hatched by Dera chief.
”Overturning the peculiar court’s beingness condemnation against Ram Rahim, the verdict acknowledges that being “a salient nationalist property with some supporters and detractors” could power the communicative surrounding transgression allegations against that person. There is simply a “greater possibility” that those convicted of “executing” the sidesplitting – Krishan Lal, Nirmal and Kuldeep Singh – acted connected their ain alternatively than connected instructions of the Dera head, it states.
