The court of Judicial Magistrate, First Class, (JMIC) Faridkot, on Monday witnessed forceful arguments between the public prosecutors for the Special Investigation Team (SIT) of the Punjab Police and defence lawyers for IG Paramraj Singh Umranangal and former Akali MLA Mantar Singh Brar over the latter’s demand for producing the case diaries of the SIT investigation into the police firing cases of Kotkapura and Behbal Kalan in the court.
The case diary is a record of day-by-day investigation of a case and it contain details of the time at which the information reached the investigating officer, time at which the investigation began and was closed, the place or places visited by the investigation team.