Punjab DGP forms 2 SITs to probe Hooch tragedy

CHANDIGARH: Punjab’s Director General of Police (DGP) Dinkar Gupta on Wednesday ordered the constitution of two Special Investigation Teams (SITs) to fast-track investigations in all the FIRs registered in the spurious liquor case that has claimed over 112 lives.

ADGP Law & Order Ishwar Singh will supervise both the SIT investigations. Punjab Police has registered a total of five FIRs — 3 in Tarn Taran, and 1 each in Amritsar Rural and Batala — in the hooch tragedy. DGP Dinkar Gupta said SP-level officers have, for the first time, been nominated as Investigating Officers (IOs) for these cases to ensure the conviction of the offenders.

“Investigating Officers have been directed by the DGP to ensure thorough and comprehensive investigations to unravel the entire backward and forward linkages both inside and outside the State of Punjab under the supervision of the SIT. IOs shall also be responsible for filing Final Report(s) in the concerned courts under their signatures expeditiously,” DGP added.  

Anil Bhardwaj

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