The daughter of the Himachal Pradesh Acting Chief Justice has been arrested by the CBI on Wednesday in connection with the Sippy Sidhu murder case of 2015.
Kalyani Singh, the daughter of Himachal Pradesh High Court Sabina, who is officiating as the Acting Chief justice now, was produced before Special CBI Magistrate Sukhdev Singh who remanded her to four-day CBI custody, a Tribune report said.
Advocate Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu, also known as Sippy Sidhu, was found shot dead in a Chandigarh park on September 20, 2015. He was a national-level shooter.
The Tribune report said Union Territory Police had registered a murder case and had begun the probe. The police found that four bullets had been shot from a .12 bore gun at Sidhu.
The case was transferred to the CBI in early 2016 and the agency began its probe in which the judge’s daughter’s name and alleged involvement came to light.
The Tribune report said the CBI had announced a reward of Rs 5 lakh for clues that would solve the case. The agency had also put out advertisements citing a woman’s involvement and gave the woman an opportunity to come forward, failing which she would be presumed to be a party to the offence.
Though the CBI filed an untraced report to keep the case open in 2020, it hiked the reward by another Rs 5 lakh in 2021, calling upon the public for information. This also turned out to be a dead-end.