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Sidhu remanded again

Patiala June 22. A city court here today remanded the suspended Punjab Public Services Commission (PPSC) Chairman, Ravinder Pal Singh Sidhu, to a five-day police custody in the second FIR registered by the Punjab Vigilance Bureau in the multi-crore recruitment scandal case.

The duty magistrate, Ranjit Kumar Jain, ordered that the bureau would not use any third degree method against Sidhu during his interrogation. Mr. Sidhu will now be produced in the court on June 27. The bureau had sought a 14-day remand with the public prosecutor pleading that Mr. Sidhu was wanted for investigations into charges of corruption, cheating and forgery levelled against the accused in the second FIR.

However, the defence counsel challenged Mr. Sidhu's custodial interrogation on the plea that it was over a month that the second FIR had been registered while the accused was already in custody. — UNI

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