The Special Investigation Team (SIT), probing Kotakpura firing case of October 2015, has named former Shiromani Akali Dal (SAD) MLA Mantar Singh Brar as an accused in the FIR. Former MLA from Kotkapura, Brar was chief parliamentary secretary in the then SAD-BJP government and he had been called by the SIT twice for investigation on November 9 last year and February 27 this year.
Brar had already applied for “blanket” bail in a Faridkot court. On Wednesday police informed the court that Brar has been named in the FIR lodged in Kotkapura police station on August 7, 2018, as one of the accused. Brar was denied the bail Wednesday.