CCTV cameras in the courtroom seem to hold the key now to a mysterious man and an even more mysterious caller and the conversation that shook Punjab for a day.
Senior advocate Harbhagwan Singh, the man in the eye of the storm, claimed on Friday that a stranger approached him in the court around 3 pm to whisper that there was an urgent message for him from the Union Law Ministry. The unsuspecting counsel, who claimed to have been engaged by the Centre only the day before the hearing, stepped out of the court to speak over the stranger’s mobile.
The caller, he recalls, identified himself as an officer in the Union Law Ministry and told the counsel that the government did not want to drag the matter for ever. Asserting that the 2003 notification was being withdrawn, the caller asked if it should be withdrawn with retrospective effect. “ I replied that since the poll notification has already been issued, the withdrawal should be ‘prospective’ and take effect from the date of the fresh notification. The Sehajdari Sikhs could then vote in the next election.”
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