The Shiromani Akali Dal (Punar Surjit) has submitted a memorandum to chief minister Bhagwant Mann, seeking a high-level and impartial special investigation team (SIT) probe into the rape case registered against former SAD leader and SGPC member Amarjit Singh Chawla. The delegation also raised questions about the circumstances surrounding the complainant’s stay at an SGPC-run accommodation in Anandpur Sahib.
AAP’s state media in-charge Baltej Pannu said that opposition leaders addressed rallies and political programmes but did not comment on this incident. “SAD leaders Sukhbir Singh Badal, Harsimrat Kaur Badal and Bikram Majithia, Congress leaders Partap Singh Bajwa and Amarinder Singh Raja Warring and BJP leaders have maintained silence on the FIR and the woman’s stay at a serai run by the Shiromani Gurudwara Parbandhak Committee (SGPC),” he claimed at a press conference. Pannu said that people wanted to know how a woman could stay at the serai for more than six months and who arranged her stay.
