Items recovered from Sandhu vanish, inspector among three cops booked
Punjab Police have booked an inspector and a head constable after material recovered from former director of agriculture department Mangal Singh Sandhu in connection with the infamous pesticide scam disappeared from the Rama police station.
Apart from the duo, a dismissed constable has also been booked in the case.
Inspector Gursher Singh, who was then posted as station house officer of the Rama police station, head constable Iqbal Singh, who was posted as head munshi, and dismissed constable Manpreet Singh have been booked under the prevention of corruption act and section 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant, or by banker, merchant or agent) of the Indian Penal Code.
The disappeared case property includes a .32 caliber madein-Germany revolver with 27 cartridges, ₹4 lakh , 3,090 Canadian dollars, 11,624 US dollars, 52 gm gold and 20 gm silver. The material was recovered from Sandhu after his arrest from his Chandigarh house in October 2015.
The matter had come in the notice of cops in December last year as Sandhu moved an application in court for exchange of Indian currency following demonetisation of ₹500 and ₹1,000 currency notes. The cops couldn’t find material in the mal khana (store) of the Rama police station after which an inquiry was conducted. The accused didn’t even mention the recovered material in the police station records.