Punjab Police extends full assistance and cooperation to CBI

A team of officers from CBI reached Moga on Sunday in connection with probe into some cases of sacrilege incidents over two years ago and is in the process of taking all the material information on record and proceeding with further investigations under the law.

Disclosing this here today, DGP Suresh Arora said the Punjab Police was providing the CBI team full access to the suspects and would continue to provide complete assistance and cooperation in bringing the ongoing investigations to completion and ensure the guilty are punished.

The DGP said that during the course of recent investigations by the Punjab Police SIT into an 'arson and damage to public property' case of Moga district of 2011, the role of certain suspects had come to light. They were arrested and produced before the competent court, which has remanded the suspects in police custody, he added.

The investigations by the SIT have also provided strong leads and material information relating to the investigation of cases presently under investigation by the CBI, the DGP said.

Several cases of sacrilege relating to religious scriptures took place in 2015-16.

Since such incidents of sacrilege appeared to be part of a design to disrupt peace and communal harmony in the border state of Punjab, a Special Investigation Team (SIT) was constituted for expeditious investigations, the DGP said.

Subsequently, the investigation of three such cases was recommended and later handed over to the CBI.