{"id":308548,"date":"2019-01-27T05:41:08","date_gmt":"2019-01-27T05:41:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=308548"},"modified":"2019-01-27T05:41:08","modified_gmt":"2019-01-27T05:41:08","slug":"former-punjab-ssp-charanjit-sharma-arrested-by-sit-in-behbal-kalan-firing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/former-punjab-ssp-charanjit-sharma-arrested-by-sit-in-behbal-kalan-firing-case\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Punjab SSP Charanjit Sharma arrested by SIT in Behbal Kalan firing case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-308549 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190127-110634__01-233x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"233\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190127-110634__01-233x300.jpg 233w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190127-110634__01-768x988.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190127-110634__01-796x1024.jpg 796w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190127-110634__01-696x895.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190127-110634__01-327x420.jpg 327w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/01\/Screenshot_20190127-110634__01.jpg 856w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px\" \/>A special investigation team (SIT) of Punjab Police on Sunday arrested former Punjab senior superintendent of police (SSP) Charanjit Sharma in connection with Behbal Kalan police firing case<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">A team of SIT arrested him from his house in Hoshiarpur during the raid that took place early hours of Sunday morning.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">According to the sources, Sharma was leading a police party that allegedly opened fire at the anti-sacrilege protesters at Behbal Kalan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u201cThe custodial questioning of Sharma was required as the SIT had collected significant evidence related to his actions in connection to the police firing in which two persons were killed,\u201d a government spokesperson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">\u00a0Sharma was earlier suspended and compulsorily retired from service.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif;\">The SIT was formed after the deaths of two protesters in the police firing at Behbal Kalan in October 2015. The deaths resulted in state-wide outrage against the then SAD-BJP government.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A special investigation team (SIT) of Punjab Police on Sunday arrested former Punjab senior superintendent of police (SSP) Charanjit Sharma in connection with Behbal Kalan police firing case A team of SIT arrested him from his house in Hoshiarpur during the raid that took place early hours of Sunday morning. According to the sources, Sharma [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":308549,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[3906,10696],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308548"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":308550,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308548\/revisions\/308550"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/308549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}