Jalandhar/Amritsar, March 3 -- Amid the ongoing controversy over the encounter of Ranjit Singh (19), one of the alleged accused involved in the killing of two police personnel, the Gurdaspur court on Monday has directed the Punjab Police and telecoms service providers to immediately preserve call detail records (CDR) and GPS location of police personnel involved in the encounter or privy to the investigation.

Hearing the petition filed by Ranjit's mother, Sukhjinder Kaur, seeking free and fair probe into the encounter, which she termed as 'staged', the court of judicial magistrate (1st class), Gurdaspur, came up with series of directions including preserving the calls records and GPS locations of Gurdaspur's senior superintendent of poli...