Fake encounter case: Punjab court puts off hearing to Aug 4

A court here today posted the hearing in a 1990 alleged fake encounter case in which Punjab Director General of Police S K Sharma and three other former cops are accused to August four when the prosecution is likely to present evidence.
District and Sessions Judge Amarjot Bhatti adjourned the case as an appeal by the accused against the charge sheet will come up for hearing in the Punjab and Haryana High court on July 21.
Sharma along with the other accused-- former Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) S P S Basra, the then Station House Officer (SHO) Balkar Singh and former Assistant Sub Inspector (ASI) Gurcharan Singh -- was present in the court today.

The court put off the matter to August four for production of evidence by prosecution.
The court had framed charges against all the four accused under sections 364 (kidnapping), 302 (murder), 201 (destroying evidence), 120 B (criminal conspiracy) and 34 (common intention) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) on June three.
Kuldeep Singh (21), along with his cousin Jasmeet Kaur, went to Morinda to get medicines from a doctor on October 24, 1990.
"He was allegedly picked up by the police in a white colour van, which was bearing a number plate of police," according to the complaint filed by his father.

After police showed Kuldeep untraceable in its report, his father Ajaib Singh had approached the court.