Bathinda, Aug. 28 -- A Faridkot district sessions court has ordered to summon Gagandeep Singh Garg, a subdivisional judicial magistrate, Jaitu, and six others as court witnesses to testify in connection with a sensational killing in 2016 after the complainant turned hostile. Kabaddi player Ajmer Singh, who was working with a liquor contractor, was shot dead on May 25, 2016. In his interim order passed on August 25, additional sessions judge Dinesh Kumar Wadhwa stated, "The court cannot remain a passive or mute spectator, but is expected to play an active role in eliciting the fact, using its power to ensure that justice is administered fairly, impartially and in accordance with law." "This needs to be examined whether the (police) encounter was genuine or fake," stated the court order that was released on Wednesday. The case will be heard next on September 12. Punjab Cricket Association (PCA) president and a senior Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) leader Amarjit Mehta and five others are facing trial. Among other accused are four Punjab Police personnel - sub-inspector Lachman Singh, constables Parminder Singh, Dharminder Singh and Kabal Singh - and a liquor contractor, Dharampal Singh Goel. Judicial magistrate Garg had prepared an inquiry report into Ajmer's killing in the encounter. Ajmer's mother Manjit Kaur was the complainant. During a hearing in Faridkot court on Monday, Manjit, her daughter and another prosecution witness, Sukhwinder Kaur, turned hostile following which the public prosecutor submitted a closure report. Setting aside the plea, the sessions judge wrote in his order that "prosecution evidence should not have been closed merely on the ground that prosecution witnesses Manjit and Sukhwinder have not supported their versions given in the complaint." It emphasised that "the core question for determination in the present case is whether the death (homicide) of deceased Ajmer is to be regarded as culpable or justified while exercising the right to private defence by the police". "Another core issue for adjudication is whether the death of Ajmer was stage-managed by the police at the behest of liquor contractors Amarjit Mehta and Dharampal Singh Goel due to business rivalry," reads the order, as it stated that "this case has a chequered history." The court order also stated that besides constable Dharminder Singh, name of Dharampal has also been added in the amended proceedings for firing the gunshot. It was alleged that Mehta and his associate Goel had been pressuring liquor contractors in Faridkot to sell their shares to them or divert their liquor quotas in 2016. In his complaint, Ranjit (since deceased) had alleged that he and his brother Ajmer, both kabaddi players, were employees of a liquor contractor. He alleged that his brother was chased by Mehta, Goel and police officials before being shot dead on May 25, 2016....