On Monday a special team which has been set up to probe the 2015 crackdown on anti-sacrilege protesters in October 2015, has arrested a senior Punjab police officer Paramraj Singh Umranangal. Two young Sikhs were killed in the police firing in Behbal Kalan of Faridkot district.
Last month the special investigation team that was set up to probe the case had arrested former Moga district police chief SSP Charanjit Singh Sharma. On Monday, SIT member Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh confirmed that inspector general of police, Paramraj Singh Umranangal, has also been arrested from Chandigarh.
Charanjit Singh Sharma was the first officer to be arrested by the SIT since October 2015 when the case was incident took place. Sharma was leading the police party that allegedly opened fire at the anti-sacrilege protesters at Behbal Kalan. The development came after the Punjab and Haryana high court upheld the Justice Ranjit Singh Commission of Inquiry report on the 2015 sacrilege and police firing and had dismissed the petitions by some retired and serving policemen to hand over the probe to the CBI.
As per the SIT, te former Moga SSP was about to leave the country at the time he was arrested. They alleged that he had got himself visas to travel to UK, Canada and USA and was trying to abscond.