Kolkata encounter | Punjab and Haryana High Court dismisses plea of slain gangster’s father for second autopsy

The Punjab and Haryana High Court on Thursday dismissed a petition filed by slain gangster Jaipal Singh Bhullar’s father searching for instructions to the State of Punjab to conduct a second autopsy of his son’s physique both at PGIMER in Chandigarh or AIIMS, Delhi.

The court docket additionally dismissed one other plea for preserving Bhullar’s physique on the Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education and Research (PGIMER).

Bhullar and one other gangster Jaspreet Singh, concerned in killing two policemen not too long ago in Ludhiana, had been gunned down by a Kolkata police workforce in a shootout within the metropolis on June 9 after receiving “pin-pointed” info from their Punjab counterparts. Bhullar’s household hasn’t but performed his final rites.

Bhullar’s father Bhupinder Singh, in his petition filed by his counsel Simranjit Singh, had sought instructions to the State of Punjab to conduct a second autopsy of his son’s physique both on the PGIMER, the All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Delhi, or some unbiased medical institute to establish the character of accidents.

Bhupinder Singh, a retired Punjab police inspector, has alleged that his son was tortured earlier than being gunned down.

When the petition got here up for listening to on Thursday, Justice Manjari Nehru Kaul dismissed it, saying the matter shouldn’t be underneath its jurisdiction because the encounter passed off in Kolkata, in response to Simranjit Singh.

Another plea for preserving the physique on the PGIMER has additionally been dismissed by the court docket, the counsel mentioned.

He added that they might method the Supreme Court after receiving a duplicate of the excessive court docket order.

Earlier on Monday, the Ferozepur deputy commissioner had rejected the request of Bhullar’s household for a second autopsy.