The CBI on Wednesday arrested Kalyani Singh, daughter of Himachal Pradesh High Court acting Chief Justice Sabina, in connection with the murder of national-level shooter Sukhmanpreet Singh, a.k.a. Sippy Sidhu, in Chandigarh in September 2015.<\/p>\n
In January 2016, the case was transferred to the CBI, after which the investigating agency registered a fresh murder case.<\/p>\n
Advocate Sippy, 36, was shot dead on September 20, 2015, in a park in Sector 27. A .12 bore gun was used in the crime and four bullets were fired from it.<\/p>\n
Chandigarh Police had registered a case of murder and recorded the statements of various suspects, including the judge’s daughter, who is believed to be a close friend of the victim, though it failed to make any headway.<\/p>\n
She was questioned twice by the police. Sidhu’s family had held protests alleging that she was being shielded by the police.<\/p>\n
In December 2020, the CBI had informed the court that it has no evidence of the involvement of a former Punjab and Haryana high court judge’s daughter in the crime. However, it said it would keep investigations open as it has “strong suspicions about the role of a woman to eliminate Sippy.”<\/p>\n
Sippy was a rifle shooter and had won the team gold along with Abhinav Bindra in the Punjab National Games in 2001.<\/p>\n
He had been on the shooting circuit for more than 15 years and won medals regularly at various shooting competitions. He was also a joint secretary of the Paralympic Committee of India.<\/p>\n
On January 22, 2016, Chandigarh Administrator Kaptan Singh Solanki had transferred the case to the CBI, which questioned the investigating officer and other police personnel.<\/p>\n
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