This special report by Ritesh Lakhi is one of the most unheard of stories of Punjab police pitted against Kolkata Police in 1993. Ritesh Lakhi attempts to go back in history, 28 years back, and trace the police action by Punjab police cops who were flown to Kolkata by an official helicopter for neutralizing Bashir Mohammad Ahmed alias Lachman Singh Babbar. As on May 17, 1993 Lachman Singh was neutralized in Tiljala locality in Kolkata. Interestingly enough, Bashir Mohammad alias Lachman Singh was a cop posted with Mansa police and was insinuated into the ranks of Babbar Khalsa by the Mansa police to seek intelligence inputs for operations further. However, as luck would have hit Bashir Mohammad got inspired and joined the Babbar cadres and apparently assumed as Sikh name Lachman Singh and conducted several actions for Babbars. The Mansa Police as also the Punjab police hunted out the Babbas & finally located Bashir in Kolkata with pregnant wife. A Punjab police operations team led by and SP rank officer and others in toe landed in Kolkata through a specially arranged chopper and neutralized Bashir Ahmed.
However Kolkata police raised objections and Punjab cops flew back without intimating their Kolkata police counterparts leading to a huge row between Punjab and West Bengal governments. Eventually the case reached Supreme Court which ordered a CBI inquiry into the action of Punjab cops and founded the cops guilty on several counts.
22 авг 2024
