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| Cops, who snatched Rs 5.5 lakh from youth, in dock | | Nag Chhatri Scam | | Sumit Sharma
Early Times Report
jammu, Mar 1: Policemen, who allegedly snatched Rs 5 lakhs from three Himachal youth during a raid in Gandoh area, and labeled them as Nag Chhatri smugglers are in dock as the probe has revealed that they provided wrong information to their seniors and showed only half of the money as recovery.
Investigations have revealed that a team of seven policemen led by a head constable Abdul Qayoom after snatching Rs 5 lakhs from the trio showed only Rs 2.70 lakh as recovery to their seniors.
Sources said the policemen had snatched the money and let the youth go as a part of the deal. However, the incident was brought into the notice of the senior police officers by the BJP leaders including Daleep Singh Parihar, now MLA, following which inquiry was ordered into the scam.
The inquiry, according to the sources revealed that raid was conducted by the Thathri police that too out of their jurisdiction. Amazingly, the raiding police team did not mention the place which they had raided in the daily dairy (Roznamcha Report) of the police.
Sources said that the incident took place on October 30, 2014, when one Ayub Khan informed Thathri Police that three Himachal based youth were involved in smuggling Nag Chhatris.
Ayub also informed police that the Himachal based trio is staying put at the residence of one Harjinder Singh at Gandoh. Following the information, a police team from Thathri raided Gandoh area and returned with some Nag Chhatris and Rs 2.70 lakh.
The police team informed seniors that the Himachal based smugglers fled from the spot leaving cash and Nag Chhatris behind.
Accordingly, FIR No 121/2014 u/s 397, Forest Act was registered in this connection at the Thatri Police station.
The twist in the tale came when the three youth Subash, Puran Chand and Sohan, whom police labeled as Nag Chhatri smugglers, met the MLA Daleep Singh Parihar and informed him that the police team had snatched Rs 5 lakhs from them. The MLA along with other social activists met with the then SSP Doda Sharif Chouhan and DIG DKR Nisar Ahmed following which inquiry was initiated. The then SDPO Gandoh B.K Ganjoo was asked to probe the allegations leveled by the trio. The inquiry officer during investigation found the Head Constable Abdul Qayoom had also withdrawn Rs 50,000 from the SBI, branch Thathri from the account of Himachal based youth.
Based on the evidence and statement recorded u/s 164 CrPC, the investigation officer lodged additional sections against the raiding team including 382, 120 b, 6 State Forest Act, 52 PC act. The inquiry in this connection was in progress and was being supervised by SP Sanjay Sharma till his transfer. Meanwhile, a senior police officer said that the investigations are about to complete. |
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