After an emergency meeting called here on the issue, KMO head Harmandeep Singh Sarhali and its patron Bibi Paramjit Kaur, wife of Khalra, said credibility of the CBI has come under the scanner.

Khalra was a human rights activist who was allegedly kidnapped and eliminated by the Punjab Police, then headed by Gill.

“The CBI is referring the official records, including the wireless messages, stating that Gill was not in the area when Khalra was abducted from his home on September 6, 1995. He (Gill) was not on an official visit that he would keep the records. We have already made him party in the ongoing case related to the disappearance of youths during terrorism,” said Kaur, adding that the CBI should have a re-look at its investigations.

When asked that it was she who had demanded a CBI probe, she said she did not know that investigations by the top investigating agency would be completed in such a haphazard manner. “The CBI had always been protecting the accused in various cases of excesses by Punjab Police,” said Sarhali.