Punjab CM orders implementation of Gill commission report

Punjab Chief Minister Amarinder Singh today directed the home and judicial department to examine and implement in a time-bound manner the recommendations of the Justice Gill Commission regarding the "false" cases lodged during the previous BJP-SAD regime.
The chief minister, who received the interim report from Justice (Retd) Mehtab Singh Gill here today, directed the Commission to monitor the implementation of the report, with the help of Secretary Home and Director Prosecution.
The Mehtab Singh Gill Commission of Inquiry, constituted by the chief minister on April 5, has so far examined 172 of the over 4200 cases/complaints received by it.

"In 79 cases, it has, after a thorough examination, found that Enforcement Department of the Government of India had correctly and impartially concluded the cases to be false," an official spokesman said.
"In another 19 cases, the Commission has recommended cancellation of FIR/withdrawal of case against the accused, and has recommended that the Home and Judicial Department should make a request to courts concerned, in a legal and proper manner, to cancel FIRs," he said.
In the remaining cases, the Commission has recommended prosecution of the complainant while suggesting that adequate compensation be recovered from the Investigating Officer.
In some cases, Gill has also recommended action against police officers responsible for instigating the false case, calling for dismissal of the officers, including at the DSP level.

The commission was mandated with probing alleged false police cases filed during the regime of Shiromani Akali Dal- BJP rule in Punjab.