Charanjit Channi on Saturday backed his authorized crew over the 2015 sacrilege case.
Chandigarh/ New Delhi:
Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Channi at the moment broke his silence on the 2015 sacrilege case and backed the federal government authorized crew amid barbs from Navjot Singh Sidhu, who on Friday gave an ultimatum to the Congress, forward of the state election subsequent 12 months, on persevering with because the state chief. The controversy over the 2015 sacrilege case and police firing has escalated forward of the state elections because the ruling social gathering witnesses continued infighting.
Talking at an occasion, Mr Channi, 58, additionally raised the important problem of medicine: “Our authorized crew managed to get permission to interrogate Gurmeet Ram Rahim in sacrilege case. Our attorneys are additionally combating the case of medicine within the courtroom and hopefully on November 18, the sealed experiences can be opened,” the Chief Minister mentioned.
Navjot Singh Sidhu, elevated because the Punjab Congress chief earlier this 12 months in an try and resolve the infighting, on Friday mentioned he has taken again his resignation from the publish however he gave an ultimatum to the social gathering. He will not return, he mentioned, until the highest authorities lawyer APS Deol was eliminated.
Mr Deol, who has represented former prime cop Sumedh Saini within the sacrilege case, had give up earlier this week however the Chief Minister refused to just accept his resignation. This led to an escalated assault from Mr Sidhu.
“When a brand new Advocate Basic is appointed I’ll go to the social gathering workplace and take cost. How can a lawyer who acquired bail for Sumedh Saini be Advocate Basic and an individual like IPS sahota be the DGP,” Mr Sidhu fumed.
“I’ve been reminding the brand new Chief Minister about these points. Who was the torchbearer in exposing the medicine and sacrilege problem? It was our president Rahul Gandhi. We should resolve these points,” mentioned the cricketer-turned-politician.
Mr Deol at the moment hit again and mentioned the assaults have been nothing however “an try and malign Congress”.
“There’s a concerted try by vested pursuits to malign the functioning of the Congress social gathering in view of the approaching elections in Punjab for his or her egocentric political achieve, by politicizing the constitutional workplace of the Advocate Basic of Punjab,” Mr Deol wrote in a quick assertion.
Punjab has been seeing excessive drama earlier than the elections because the Congress continues to make makes an attempt to resolve inside variations. Mr Sidhu had earlier brazenly rebelled in opposition to Amarinder Singh earlier than he lastly give up because the Chief Minister and the Congress, his social gathering of 4 many years, to launch his personal social gathering.
