The household of slain national-level shooter and advocate Sukhmanpreet Singh Sidhu, alias Sippy Sidhu, has written to the Chief Justice of India over the Bail granted to Kalyani Singhan accused in his homicide.

In a press convention held in Mohali, the household gave out a duplicate of the letter wherein Sidhu’s mom, Deepinder Kaur, claimed that the excessive court docket choose who granted bail to Kalyani Singh shouldn’t have handled the case as he was a colleague of her mom, justice Sabina, on the Himachal Pradesh excessive court docket.

“We were shocked how Kalyani was able to get bail within three months of her arrest,” she mentioned, terming the judgment “biased and factually wrong”.

Arrested on June 15, Kalyani was granted bail on September 13 by the excessive court docket bench of justice Sureshwar Thakur, whereas observing that “prima facie (the CBI has) chosen to ill indulge in taking the services of tutored and planted witnesses merely for solving the crime”.

The bail was granted a day after CBI submitted chargesheet against Kalyani in a CBI court in Chandigarh, specifying her role.

Sippy was shot dead at a park in Sector 27, Chandigarh, on September 20, 2015.

The family claimed that the bail was granted in a “very hurried manner” and “without seeing the new chargesheet” filed by CBI. In the letter, they have said that Kalyani will try to “influence, threaten, desist or win over material witnesses and tamper with evidence”.

Similar letters have been despatched to the Prime Minister’s Office, to the Union residence and regulation ministers, the chief justices of the Himachal Pradesh excessive court docket and the Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket, and the governors of Punjab, Haryana and Himachal Pradesh.