CHANDIGARH: Will it be possible for 18yearold Harpreet Kaur who has now been released after the investigators found that she had nothing to dio with the RDX recovered from her “parents house, to start afresh.
It seems tough, but young Harpreet determined for begin again with full support from her family and friends.
She would soon be back in college to “continue with her B.A, Part studies, she said Harprect along with her father, Nasib Singh, was picked up by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBD on September 17 in a midnight s Jhingra village, in Ropar: : police had found 15 kg of lethal RDX from the fodder room of the family. While her father has been booked for keeping explosive material, besides other charges, the investigators have set Harpreet free, finding her to be innocent.
Her mother, Ms. Aviar Kaur, sits petrified on a cot at her residence cursing Jagtar Singh alias Tara of nearby village that had left the explosive at their residence about a month before the assassination of Punjab Chief Minister Beant Singh.
Hardial Singh, 70, the maternal grandfather of Harpreet with whom she is presently staying in another village, laments the ignorance of his daughter, Ms. Avtar Kaur, who had allowed Tara to conceal the RDX in her house. “She should have immediately informed her husband, Nas the police” he said.
Harprect has all praise for the CBI officials and the SP (Operation), Ropar, $.P.S. Basra, who treater her like their own daughter, “I was neither tortured nor abused,” she said, in fact, the CBI had handed over Harpreet to the Punjab Police after interrogating her for a day. The Ropar police after summoned the Sarpanchs of Jhingra village and the relatives of the girl and restored her to them.
However, she grudges the fact that the newspapers rushed to believe the police version that she was being used by the Babbar Khalsa International activists as a Courier of arms.
Ms. Avtar Kaur, however, was unable to tell where her son, Harmanjit Singh, and his wife were at present. ‘The police is pressurizing the family to produce their only son who, accordingly to the family, seems to have gone into hiding fearing police repression.
The 70 year old Hardial Singh admitted that peace had returned to Punjab after Beant Singh assumed office; He unequivocally condemned the assassination of the Chief Minister.
Meanwhile, the judicial magistrate, Mr, Ram Singh Chaudhary, extended the judicial remand of Nasib Singh, accused of being in possession of RDX, till October 14.
The CBI had recovered 15 kg of RDX from the residence of the accused in Jhingra village on September 17 following disclosures made by Jagtar Singh alias Tara.
Article extracted from this publication >> October 13, 1995
