Punjab IPS officer Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh joins AAP
Wednesday | May 21 2025 | 09:21:34 PM
Wednesday | May 21 2025 | 09:21:34 PM
New Delhi, June 22
Former Inspector General of Police Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh joined the Aam Aadmi Party. Singh is the member of the Special Investigating Team (SIT) probing the 2015 Kotkapura-and Behbal Kalan police firing incidents.
Delhi CM Arvind Kejriwal while inducting Singh stated that Kunwar was instrumental in exposing the ‘masterminds’ behind the the Bargari sacrilege of (Guru Granth Sahib) case and the Kotkapura police firing incident of 2015.
Kejriwal said, “However, the entire system ganged up against him. He resigned when he felt that nothing can be done while staying inside the system. He left his job so that he can fight to deliver justice for the people. I want to assure that once the AAP forms government, the ‘masterminds’ of Bargari sacrilege case will be punished.”
Kunwar had taken premature retirement in April after the Punjab and Haryana High Court quashed the report of the SIT of Punjab Police (of which he was a part) into the firing incident.
The State government constituted another three-member SIT and directed it to complete the investigations into the police firing incidents, preferably in six months, as per the court’s orders.
Two persons were killed in the police firing in Behbal Kalan of Faridkot district in 2015, which followed the sacrilege of Guru Granth Sahib at Bargari.
