CHANDIGARH, OCT 4: The World Sikh Council case took a new turn today, with the court dismissing the application filed earlier by plaintiffs Baldev Singh Brar and Taleb Singh Sandhu to make ex-SGPC president Gurcharan Singh Tohra, former jathedar of the Akal Takth Ranjit Singh, former chief justice R.S. Narula and H.K. Manmohan Singh as parties to the main suit. It may be recalled that the above-mentioned had earlier been dropped as parties from the suit which sought the court to grant stay on working of Kuldip Singh as WSC president.While dismissing the application today, UT District and Sessions Judge B.S. Bedi said it was not necessary to make the above mentioned as parties to the suit.
On the last date of arguments, i.e. September 27, plaintiff Baldev Singh Brar had argued that Tohra, Ranjit Singh, Narula and Manmohan Singh should be impleaded as necessary parties keeping in view the fact that Kuldip Singh himself, in reply to the application, had taken the stand that they should be made party to the suit.
Brar also argued that one of the grounds on which former UT Civil Judge (senior division) B.C. Gupta had declined stay on functioning of Kuldip Singh as president of the council, was that the aforemenioned had been dropped from the suit.
It was also argued by Brar that the court was bound under the law to implead them as party to the suit in the larger interests of justice.
Meanwhile, Baldev Singh Brar today said that he was likely to file a revision petition in the Punjab and Haryana High court against the order of DSJ.
Beant case: witness confronts earlier statements
Beant Singh assassination case being heard by UT District and Sessions Judge B.S. Bedi came up today for further recording of evidence in the courtroom at Burail.On the last date witness Tejinder Pal Singh had been cross examined. His cross examination had, however, not been completed. He was recalled today. Tejinder Singh, it may be recalled, is a friend of accused Balwant Singh. Witness Gurpreet Singh who was examined before Tejinder Singh had also stated that he knew Balwant through Tejinder.
Today the witness confronted on many statements which he had earlier made before the New Delhi Metropolitan Magistrate.
On the last date Tejinder Singh had stated that he had never visited hotels in Agra and Panipat where accused Balwant Singh is alleged to have stayed. He said that though the registers of President Hotel and Anand Mahal hotel were shown to him by the CBI, those of Agra and Panipat hotels were shown to him here in the court for the first time. He also stated that his statement regarding hotels at Agra and Panipat had not been recorded.
The witness had also stated that he could identify Balwant's handwriting in Hindi, English and Punjabi. He said that usually Balwant used to write in Punjabi and he used to write the address in English.
Sector 34 blast: Accused in judicial custody
Gurbaksh Singh, one of the two accused in June 30 bomb blast in Sector 34, was today produced in the court of Duty Magistrate Baljinder Singh, who remanded him to judicial custody till October 16 in view of the fact that investigation in the case was still pending.Another accused in the same case, Sher Singh, was not produced in thecourt today. The assistant sub-inspector accompanying another accused submitted in the court that Sher Singh was in custody of Delhi police.
The court today directed that production warrants against the accused be issued for October 16.
It may be recalled that the accused were booked here on June 30 under Sections 307, 120-B IPC, apart from Sections 3 and 4 of the Explosive Substances Act.
They were arrested on July 3 by a Panipat police party from a dera (where they are sewadars) in village Der, district Jind. They were in custody of the Haryana police before they were brought here with the permission of the Kurukshetra CJM.
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