Overview
- On Friday, the High Court issued notice on the mother’s petition seeking a CBI probe and a judge-supervised SIT, asking the Punjab government to respond by May 25.
- The bench earlier took suo motu cognisance, summoned DGP Gaurav Yadav, and directed him to file an affidavit by March 17 detailing the sequence of events and procedural compliance.
- A Gurdaspur judicial magistrate has ordered preservation of officers’ call records, GPS data, and CCTV from the encounter site, and directed a medical board review of the injured officer’s wound.
- Punjab Police say Ranjit Singh tried to flee during a weapon-recovery operation and fired at officers before being shot, while the family alleges a custodial killing and refuses cremation pending an independent inquiry.
- The case stems from the February 22 killings of two policemen that investigators linked to ISI involvement; an SIT is in place, and separate PIL proceedings seek data and probes into similar recent encounters in Punjab.