Case of Sippy murder: High Court notifies CBI about Kalyani Singh’s appeal

In response to a plea filed by Kalyani Singh asking for the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to provide certain documents related to the Sippy Sidhu murder case, the Punjab and Haryana High Court has issued a notice of motion. Judge Manjari Nehru Kaul set the trial court’s deadline for arguments on April 25 and ordered the trial court to extend it beyond that date.

Kalyani Singh had originally approached the trial court, “since these were relied upon by the CBI in both the reports presented under Sections 173 (2) and 173 (8) of the Code of Criminal Procedure,” the Bench was informed. She was upset that the “relevant documents” that she had prayed for in her application had not been provided.

Senior counsel RS Cheema, along with advocates Sartej Singh Narula, Harish Mehla, Satish Sharma, and Prabhat Gupta, appeared on her behalf. She further stated that the trial court had “erroneously” denied her prayer in the impugned order because the relevant documents had not even been given to the deceased’s family.

Cheema further stated that “not only had the documents sought by the petitioner been relied upon by the investigating agency in its report under Section 173 (2) of the CrPC, but had admittedly been supplied to the family of the deceased,” making the trial court’s observations in the impugned order, on their face, incorrect.