Friday, 07 October 2022 | PNS / Dehradun
The Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) president Karan Mahara has demanded that the State government should set up a Special Investigation Team (SIT) in the case of Kedar Singh Bhandari of Uttarkashi who is missing from Lakshmanjhula area. In a letter to the chief minister Pushkar Singh Dhami, the PCC president said that Kedar Singh Bhandari, son of Lakshman Singh of village Chaidiyat, Patti Ganjana in Uttarkashi district had gone to Kotdwar on August 18 to participate in the Agniveer recruitment rally. From there he left for Tapovan, Lakshmanjhula in Rishikesh on August 21. On August 22, the Tapovan police informed the second son of Lakshman Singh on phone that Kedar Singh is in the locker of the Tapovan police post. When the family members of Kedar Singh reached Tapovan and inquired with the police, they were told that there is no person of name Kedar Singh who was detained by it. The family was later informed by the Lakshmanjhula police that Kedar Singh had jumped into the Ganga river.
In his letter to CM, Mahara said that the family members of Kedar Singh are worried and they fear that some mishap has occurred. He said that the laxity shown by the Police in registering the missing complaint of the family and the working style of the police shows that the rule of law has vanished from the State. He demanded that a SIT headed by a competent officer should be set up in the case.
