Excelsior Correspondent
JAMMU, May 9: A Division Bench of the Supreme Court today granted conditional bail to former SSP Jammu Manohar Singh in tampering of evidence in much publicized Amandeep Singh murder case of August 2009.
Manohar Singh was in the jail for the past about four years and eight months along with several other accused excepting Rakesh Singh, brother of Nagar Singh alias Nago, who was granted bail earlier.
A division bench of the Supreme Court comprising Justice Arjan Kumar Sikri and Justice Fakkir Mohamed Ibrahim Kaifullah granted bail to Manohar Singh after hearing arguments with the condition that he wouldn’t enter Jammu and Kashmir except for appearance in the court.
A similar condition had also been imposed on Rakesh Singh when he was granted the bail.
One of the accused in the case Sub Inspector Satnam Singh, who was Investigating Officer at Gandhi Nagar police station, had died during the trial in the hospital, where he had been shifted from the jail.
Inspector Sultan Mirza, then SHO Gandhi Nagar police station is still in the jail.
Among other accused of the Amandeep Singh murder case, who were in the jail, included Nagar Singh alias Nago, his son Jatinder Singh alias Raja, Royal Singh, Raj Singh, a police constable, who was then posted in FSL and Bukhari, a ballistic expert of FSL.
Raja and Royal Singh had killed Amandeep Singh in his house at Gandhi Nagar while others were involved in tampering evidence to shield Nago’s son, Raja.
Amandeep was murdered on August 29, 2009. While Raja and Royal were arrested within a day of the crime, the police and FSL officials were arrested in September. Nagar Singh and Rakesh Singh were arrested in November. Their third brother, Jagar Singh was also arrested in the case but was later bailed out by the court.
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