which petition has the supreme court now rejected in the security breach case

The Supreme Court rejected the Punjab government’s request for access to the statements of witnesses who testified before the commission set up to probe security violations during Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the state on January 5, 2022. We do not see any basis to entertain the request made by the Punjab Government. A bench of Justices Surya Kant and Ujjwal Bhuyan said the state can conduct its investigation against the guilty officials without the aid of the statements given by the witnesses before the inquiry committee.

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) government in Punjab approached the top court seeking a copy of the statements and said it wanted an investigation against negligent officials. On January 12, 2022, the SC appointed its former judge Justice Indu Malhotra to head an inquiry committee to probe the security breach that left PM Modi’s convoy stranded on the flyover for 20 minutes. The committee, in its report, blamed the then Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) of Ferozepur, Harmandeep Singh Hans, saying he failed to discharge his responsibilities for maintaining law and order… or for deputing forces to strengthen the route. Failed to take any steps for.

Hans, it said, failed to discharge his responsibilities to maintain law and order or take any steps to deploy force to strengthen the route in Ferozepur even though he was fully aware that the larger There were enemy groups that had come to block the route. He failed to extend and fortify the route at Firozpur, even though he had sufficient forces available. There was ample time of about 2 hours after 10.20 when G Nageswara Rao (Additional Director General of Police) informed him that the Prime Minister would take the contingency route and the route should be adequately strengthened.