Police gets 2-day custody of UK national Johal

LUDHIANA: A local court on Saturday gave police a two-day remand of UK national

Jagtar Singh

Johal in an RSS shakha attack case, which makes it the first arrest in the high profile case. Meanwhile, the court of Judicial Magistrate First Class (JMIC) Sumit Sabharwal sent the accused to judicial custody in the murder case of pastor Sultan Masih, registered at Saleem Tabri police station. The accused will be produced in the court of

JMIC Gurpreet Kaur

on December 4. During the proceeding in the court of Sabharwal, police officials said they pleaded for a five-day remand to recover the passport from the accused. However, JMIC sent the accused to judicial custody.

Jaspal Singh

Manjhpur

, defence counsel for Jagtar Singh, said the court did not entertain the plea of the police after he contended it had already been a month that they were asking for recovery of the passport, even as the same had been deposited by his brother with the British High Commission on November 8. He added that after that, police placed an application requesting his transit remand in the RSS shakha Kidwai Nagar firing case registered at Division No.2 police station.

Manjhpur said even as the police had pleaded for a ten-day remand for Johal, Gurpreet Kaur gave them only two days of his custody. He added that the police pleaded

Johal

had to dole out information about who had funded the firing, and who were involved in the case. Police officials said with Johal’s arrest in the case, he had become the first accused who was arrested. They added that the police might plead for the remand of accused Jimmy Singh in the case after his police remand in another case ends.

Meanwhile, Jimmy will be produced by police before the duty magistrate in the Sultan Masih case on Sunday. Police had taken him on a two-day remand on Friday on the pretext that they wanted to question him about who was involved in the case, and about the transaction involved in the execution of that murder.


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