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Chandigarh: Punjab and Haryana high court has ordered the special CBI court Mohali to conclude the trial in the disappearance and kidnapping/abduction case against former PPS officer Gurmeet Singh Randhawa and other cops of Punjab police within eight months. The accused were booked in the alleged incident of 1992 by the CBI in 2000, and the case has been pending since then. “This court deems it appropriate to direct the Special Judge, CBI, Punjab, SAS Nagar (Mohali) to make earnest efforts and take up the case preferably on priority basis and endeavour to conclude it within the next eight months,” the HC has ordered.

Justice Manjari Nehru Kaul has passed these orders while disposing of a petition seeking directions to the special, CBI judge Mohali to conduct the trial of the criminal case, ‘CBI Vs. Gurmeet Singh and Others’ on day-to-day basis.

Hearing the plea, the HC had on June 3 sought a report from the trial court regarding the case. When the matter came up for hearing on July 18, the HC was informed that the occurrence pertains to 1992, but the trial commenced only after 2021 as prior to this it was stayed on an apex court order.

The CBI had registered the case after one Amrik Kaur had approached the Supreme Court in the 90s over the disappearance of her husband Amrik Singh. Apart from Gurmeet Singh Randhawa, other accused facing trial are Suba Singh and Parminder Singh. The criminal proceedings against two other accused Jaswant Singh and Surinder Singh had been abated on July 21, 2016.

The court has also made it clear that the CBI court would not entertain any request for any unnecessary adjournments

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