Mohali: The police were left red-faced as the local court on Monday once again rejected their plea for custody of Nishan Singh, one of the accused in the Mohali RPG attack case. This time, the police had sought his custody in a car theft case under Sohana police station.
The court pulled up the police after observing that Nishan’s confession statement in the car theft case had already been included in the custody papers but the police never took him into custody, said his (Nishan) counsel Raghav Sharma.
The confession statement in the case was taken while Nishan was already in jail, Sharma added. He said that on going through the police reports, the court questioned the investigating officer that when Nishan was already in judicial custody then when did the Mohali cops take his confession. Sharma also apprised the court that earlier also the police had attempted to get Nishan’s custody and produced him in a separate court, but their plea was rejected.
Taking a serious note of the police action, the court pulled up the probe officer and directed him to personally drop Nishan at Faridkot jail. Earlier, the State Special Operation Cell had brought Nishan on a production warrant from Ferozepur jail.