{"id":309559,"date":"2019-02-18T11:13:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:13:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=309559"},"modified":"2019-02-18T11:13:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T11:13:46","slug":"sit-arrests-senior-punjab-police-officer-in-behbal-kalan-firing-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/sit-arrests-senior-punjab-police-officer-in-behbal-kalan-firing-case\/","title":{"rendered":"SIT arrests Senior Punjab police officer in Behbal Kalan firing case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-309562 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/paramraj-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"568\" height=\"403\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/paramraj-300x213.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/paramraj-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2019\/02\/paramraj.jpg 484w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 568px) 100vw, 568px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the Behbal Kalan firing incident on Monday arrested a senior Punjab police officer Paramraj Singh Umranangal from Chandigarh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SIT member Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh confirmed the arrest of Umranangal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SIT had last month arrested former Moga district police chief SSP Charanjit Singh Sharma.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Umranangal who was IGP of Ludhiana range at the time of incident was summoned by the SIT for questioning a few days back along with other officials. All these officers were on duty when police firing incidents at Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan village in Faridkot took place.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Two young people protesting against the sacrilege incidents were killed in the police firing at Behbal Kalan.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Charanjit Singh Sharma was leading the police party that purportedly opened fire at the people protesting against anti-sacrilege incidents at Behbal Kalan.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Special Investigation Team (SIT) investigating the Behbal Kalan firing incident on Monday arrested a senior Punjab police officer Paramraj Singh Umranangal from Chandigarh. SIT member Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh confirmed the arrest of Umranangal. SIT had last month arrested former Moga district police chief SSP Charanjit Singh Sharma. Umranangal who was IGP of Ludhiana [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":309562,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2009,2913,2014],"tags":[1316,10901,279,121],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309559"}],"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\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=309559"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309559\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":309563,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/309559\/revisions\/309563"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/309562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=309559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=309559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=309559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}