MOHALI: A Punjab Police assistant sub inspector (ASI) was sentenced to 10 years’ rigorous imprisonment in a 30-year-old fake encounter case here on Thursday. Special CBI judge Harinder Sidhu also slapped a fine of Rs 20,000 on ASI Amrik Singh. If the convict fails to pay, he will have to serve one more year in prison.
Amrik’s co-accused inspector Wassan Singh died during the trial in the case of fake encounter in Sathiala village of Beas in Amritsar district.
The FIR in the case was registered in 1997, following the directions of the Supreme Court. The investigative agency filed a chargesheet against Wassan Singh and Amrik for killing Gurvinder Singh, who was a resident of Pheruman village in Amritsar district.
As per the case, a police party raided the house of Gurvinder and picked his father Chanan Singh. Then they picked Gurvinder from the house of his uncle in Jalandhar. The next day, Gurvinder was shown as killed in an encounter with the police. The case was handed over to the CBI in 2000. Charges of kidnapping, illegal confinement and murder were framed against the two.
Counsel for victim, advocate S S Verka said that the CBI judge convicted Amrik for kidnapping, illegal confinement, and killing Gurvinder in a fake encounter. During trial he was on bail and was present in the court, was taken into custody.
