Chandigarh: In Punjab and Haryana High Court, the wife of Mohali resident Charanpreet Singh had filed a petition demanding an impartial investigation into a suspicious death in Ropar jail. The court has issued notice to CBI on the petition.
Gurdeep Kaur told the High Court that on August 14, 2018, her husband Charanpreet was arrested by Mohali Police in an FIR registered under the Arms Act.
After remand, when Charanpreet was produced in court, the magistrate ordered a medical check-up after seeing his injuries. After the medical check-up, the magistrate ordered a complaint against the police officer.
Petitioner Gurpreet Kaur had demanded to get her husband’s post-mortem done in PGI and to preserve CCTV footage of Ropar jail. CCTV footage was preserved, but the petitioner’s first demand was rejected. The petitioner said that the injury marks in the postmortem were ignored to save the senior police officers. After hearing the petitioner’s side, the High Court issued a notice to the other respondents, including the CBI, and sought a reply.
The police officers pressured the petitioner’s husband to withdraw the complaint, but instead of not doing so, three NDPS FIRs were registered against her husband, one after the other. He got bail in two cases, but in the third case, he was also lodged in Ropar jail.
He was beaten up in jail.
On July 24, Gurpreet Kaur was informed over the phone from the jail that her husband had died. A day before her husband’s death, a prisoner released on bail told the petitioner that her husband was brutally beaten up in jail.