A chargesheet filed in the court here by the Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the Kotkapura firing incident of October 2015 has claimed that Sukhbir Badal had got cancelled a criminal case of blasphemy against Dera Sacha Sauda chief in January 2015, five days before the polling for Assembly elections to gain vote bank of the dera. The criminal case was registered against the dera chief in May 2007 at Bathinda.
The act of firing on peaceful protesters in Kotkapura on October 14, 2015, was an outcome of a conspiracy between certain high-profile politicians and police officers in connivance with the head of Dera Sacha Sauda and his followers.