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Jagtar Singh Johal, alias Jaggi Johal, a British National, accused of being concerned in focused killings of Right wing leaders in Punjab, secured common bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court, however will remain contained in the jail as 9 circumstances in which he has been booked below the stringent Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act (UAPA) are pending in opposition to him.
Johal secured the bail in a case registered at Baghapurana police station in December 2016 in which Moga police had named him as an accused. The FIR was registered below Sections 419, 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120B of the IPC, Section 25 of the Arms Act, and Sections 17, 18, 19 and 20 of the UAPA, 1967. Jaggi was arrested on November 4, 2017.
Pleading for normal bail to Johal, his counsel Jaspal Singh Manjhpur, advised the courtroom that nothing had been recovered from the petitioner and no overt act is attributed to him. “He is in custody for over three years and is not involved in any other case. Other co-accused, Jagjit Singh and Dharaminder Singh, have been granted regular bail by the coordinate bench as well as by this Court,” Manjhpur contended.
The state counsel, nonetheless, contended that 16 out of 75 prosecution witnesses have been examined. He contented that petitioner together with different accused was concerned in illegal actions and has been instigating others.
Granting bail to Johal, Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal ordered, “In view of the submissions made, especially when the petitioner has been arraigned as an accused on the statement of the co-accused, nothing has been recovered from the petitioner. He is in custody for over three years and not involved in any other case. The co-accused have been granted regular bail. The conclusion of the trial is likely to take some time, so I deem it a fit case to grant the concession of regular bail to the petitioner”.
Johal (30), is a resident of Dumbarton, Scotland. He was arrested on November 4, 2017 from Jalandhar by Punjab Police for his alleged position in the focused killings reported from April 2016 to October 2017, together with the homicide of RSS chief Brigadier Jagdish Gagneja (Retd).
Punjab Police had claimed that Johal had admitted to assembly Harminder Singh alias Mintu, now lifeless, in France and giving him £3,000. He allegedly offered £800 for procuring weapons used in goal killings in Punjab. This confession assertion was the premise of first case registered in opposition to Johal at Baghapurana.
The National Investigation Agency (NIA) used the identical confessional assertion of Johal in eight circumstances. Johal’s lawyer claimed that there isn’t any different substantial doc or restoration in opposition to Johal in all 9 lively pending circumstances out of whole 10 registered in opposition to him.
Johal was arrested following the disclosure by one Taljit Singh Jimmy, who has now been discharged by the NIA in one other case in which each Taljit and Johal had been co-accused below UAPA and different sections.
“Police and NIA cases against Johal is based on his confessional statement. They don’t have anything substantial against Johal and they couldn’t bring any evidence in support of alleged confessional statement,” mentioned Johal’s lawyer.
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