CHANDIGARH: A Sessions court has issued notice to the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) over the plea of the two defense council of an accused in the Beant assassination case that they want to visit Pakistan in order to verify the CBI story that Babbar khalasa chief Wadhawa singh. Mahal and Jagtar singh Hawara batched a conspiracy to kill Beant Singh.
District and Sessions judge Amar Dutt said he cannot ask the Pakistan Embassy to issue them a visa to visit Pakisian when counsel D,S. Rajput Said he and his colleague Bhupinder Singh intend to visit to inspect and prepare site plans of the places where the CBI alleged that the conspiracy was hatched.
The defense counsel said they also intend to visit that room in village Ratoli in Himachal Pradesh where the “accused, Shamsher singh alias Shera and some proclaimed offenders convened a secret meeting regarding RDX dumping place in village Jhingra Kalan near Ajnala on Indo-Pak border. They also wanted to visit village Jhincra. The petition has sought to make the Pakistan Embassy and Himachal Pradesh Government a party besides CBI and the Punjab Government.
The petition pointed out that the CBI had submitted the site plan of the Civil Secretariat, where Beant Singh was assassinated by a human bomb on August 31, 1995, in which 18 others persons were killed, but it did not submit site plans of other places.
Shamsher resident of Ukasi Jatan village in Patiala is facing the charge drove a truck and went to the Indo-Pak border to fetch the RDX which was used to make the human bomb in Mohali and blasted in the Civil Secretariat porch. The petition claimed that the prosecution story was concocted and that the CBI had filed a false charge sheet. So it is essential to visit and prepare site plans in the interest of justice, it said.
Article extracted from this publication >> February 28, 1996
