Two days after being acquitted in the over seven-year-old high-profile case of corruption,disproportionate assets,misuse of official position and several criminal offences,Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Badal,his mother Surinder Kaur Badal and their five close relatives and associates on Monday appeared before a Mohali Special Court and furnished surety bonds worth Rs 50,000 each. However,Chief Minister Parkash Singh Badal,his close relative Narottam Singh Dhillon and Gurpinder Singh Grewal sought more time to furnish their surety bonds while citing their busy schedule. Besides Sukhbir and his octogenarian mother,Nirbhjit Singh,Pavittar Singh,Darshan Singh,Jagnandan Singh and Harbans Lal also furnished their surety bonds before the Special Judge Rajinder Aggarwal. The court ordered to release the passports of the acquitted persons,who submitted their personal and surety bonds. While Sukhbir already had his passport,which the court had released earlier on granting him permission to visit abroad,Nirbhjits passport was released from the local court. However,the passports of other persons were attached with a Ropar court,from where they were directed to get them released. All the acquitted persons had furnished personal bonds on Friday itself immediately after the court had ordered to acquit them. The court had asked them to furnish the same as an undertaking to appear before the higher court,where if the court verdict is challenged at any later stage. The court also asked the Assistant Public Prosecutor (APP) Vijay Kumar Singla to draft a criminal complaint against two senior IPS officers Surinderpal Singh and B K Uppal for fabrication of evidence,making false record and presenting the challan with false allegations. Charging them with commission of perjury,the court had ordered to prosecute Singh,who was then Punjab Vigilance Bureau (VB) Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) and now retained on contract as Officer on Special (OSD) to the Vigilance Bureau following his superannuation,was the Investigating Officer (IO) in the case while Uppal,who was then VB Deputy Inspector General of Police (DIG) and now Inspector General of Police,Special Narcotics Cell,Punjab,was Supervising Officer (SO) in the case under Sections 120-B,182,193,211,218 and 219 of the IPC.
