Moosewala homicide: Punjab authorities’s request for probe by sitting HC choose turned down

By PTI

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab authorities’s request for a probe by a sitting excessive court docket choose into the homicide of singer Sidhu Moosewala has not been accepted, based on sources.

The sources stated a communication on this regard has been despatched to the state authorities by the court docket administration.

The HC administration is learnt to have advised the federal government that it can not spare a choose.

The excessive court docket is wanting 38 judges with a pendency of round 4.50 lakh instances.

There was no rapid response from the state authorities.

Moosewala was shot useless by unidentified assailants in Punjab’s Mansa district On May 29.

The Punjab authorities had Monday introduced establishing a judicial fee headed by a sitting HC choose after Moosewala’s father Balkaur Singh had sought it.

Punjab’s Principal Secretary (Home) Anurag Verma in a letter to HC, Registrar General, on May 30, had written, “The government is very concerned about this serious incident and would like to get to the root of the cause to bring the perpetrators of this heinous crime to justice.”

“I have been directed to convey the request of the Hon’ble Chief Minister for the Hon’ble Chief Justice, Punjab and Haryana High Court to get conducted an enquiry headed by a sitting judge of the Hon’ble Punjab and Haryana High court in this regard.”

The household of Moosewala has additionally written a letter to Union Home Minister Amit Shah, searching for a probe by the central businesses into the brutal homicide of the well-known Punjabi singer.

Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann had visited Moosewala’s residence in Mansa on Friday, assuring the slain singer’s household that his killers would quickly be behind bars.