Twodays after submitting resignation to Punjab Chief Minister Captain AmarinderSingh, seeking premature retirement from service, IPS Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singhon Friday morning met Punjab Governor VP Singh Badnore for the same.
KunwarVijay Pratap was heading the Special Investigation Teams (SITs) probing theKotkapura and Behbal Kalan firing cases. However, on April 9, the Punjab andHaryana High Court had quashed the investigation carried out by the state inthe Kotkapura firing case.
TheHigh Court even directed the state to reconstitute the special investigationteam without Kunwar Vijay Pratap Singh, after which Kunwar Pratap submitted hisresignation to Punjab CM Captain Amarinder which was rejected by him sayingthat the state needs services of the highly competent and efficient officer, especiallyat a time when Punjab was faced with various internal and external securitythreats.
Ina related development, IG Kunwar Vijay Partap today met Governor VP SinghBadnore, and gave the statement that the meeting was “routine and in hisprivate capacity.”
Whilewhen questioned on his resignation, he said that he will not change hisdecision of resigning, and has convinced Punjab Chief Minister Capt AmarinderSingh for the same.
Meanwhile,the decision of IG Vijay Pratap Singh hasn’t gone down well with the rulingCongress Government and many political leaders who feels that the IG’sretirement over the SIT probe would bring a bad name to the party and wouldaffect the party’s credibility in the upcoming assembly elections.
Besides,speculations are being made on the future actions of IG Vijay Pratap Singh.Sources inform that one must not feel shock if IG Pratap in future becomesactive in politics and join some political party.
IGPratap meanwhile in his facebook post on Tuesday said, I did my part ...... Noregret .....I request everybody not to glamourise or politicise the issue....
Eachand every sentence of my Report and Chargesheet is evidence in itself....Itcannot be negated in any manner....Guilty mind cannot dare to face the mirrorof truth....I have filed the appeal in the Court of Sri Guru Gobind Singh jifor final verdict; the most superior Court as per my wisdom and knowledge of Law.
“Iwill continue to serve the society in the best possible manner, however, NOT inthe IPS”, he said on his social media post.
