As many as 19 policemen were sentenced by a CBI court here Thursday to life imprisonment in the case of killing of a gurdwara sewadar in a staged shootout in 1992.<\/p>\n
Seventeen of the cops will serve the sentence since two have already died of natural causes.<\/p>\n
The case goes back to 1992, when the convicted policemen belonging to the Uttar Pradesh police abducted Jaswinder Singh alias Jassa, a “Sewadar” (worker) at Gurdwara Rakabganj in New Delhi and shot him dead in a staged shootout in Bijnore district of Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n
The cops claimed to have recovered an AK-56 assault rifle and a double-barrelled gun from Jassa’s possession. They further claimed that Jassa had robbed the double-barrelled gun from a local man.<\/p>\n
After the news reached Delhi, Jassa’s relative filed a writ petition before the Supreme Court in which he claimed that his relative Jaswinder was abducted by the Uttar Pradesh police and was shot dead in a staged gunbattle. On his request, the court ordered the case to be investigated by the CBI court in 1993.<\/p>\n
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