While taking up the case after the CBI had presented the challan in respect of the case, the CJM ordered that the accused be summoned in the court on December 1, through bailable warrants.

The Central Bureau of Investigation, in its challan, after holding the seven Punjab Police officers guilty in the case, had sought sanction to prosecute accused Surjit Singh Grewal, inspector in-charge, ASI Amarjit Singh, SI Birbal Das, Head Constables Nikka Ram and Gurcharan SIngh and constables Chanan Singh and Dayal Singh of police station Sohana, who allegedly entered into criminal conspiracy at Patiala to kidnap one Kulwinder Singh Kidd and later allegedly killed him in a false encounter.

It will be after nine years that the prosecution will proceed with evidence against the accused, after a writ petition was filed in the Punjab and Haryana High Court by the deceased's father Trilochan SIngh. The petitioner had made a request before the court to ascertain the whereabouts of his son who had been whisked away by people of a police party dressed in plainclothes from his Phase V Mohali residence in July 1989.

Later, the High Court marked an inquiry in the case, which held the seven police officers guilty of killing the victim in a false encounter.