Ex-constable held for plotting SHO’s murder

ALLEGED CONSPIRACY Police say constable-turned-gangster was sacked from force in June last year on the complaint of the inspector in a drug peddling case

JALANDHAR: Police on Sunday arrested three gangsters, including a dismissed police constable with two pistols and sharp-edged weapons, who were planning to kill an inspector. The police received an input that a dismissed state police cop turned gangster, along with his associates has hatched a conspiracy to loot a cash van of some bank and assault inspector Navdeep Singh, currently posted at Haibowal police station in Ludhiana, over personal enmity, said police.

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The former cop nursed a grudge against the SHO. Four of their accomplices, including two residents of Bihar, are absconding GURPREET SINGH BHULLAR , Jalandhar SSP

JALANDHAR: Police on Sunday arrested a dismissed Punjab Police constable-turned gangster and two of his accomplices for allegedly planning to eliminate a station house officer (SHO) posted in Ludhiana.

Police also claimed to have recovered two pistols and a sharp-edged weapon from the accused.

Police said they received an input that the dismissed cop along with his associates hatched a conspiracy to loot a cash van of a bank and assault inspector Navdeep Singh, currently posted as SHO of Haibowal Kalan police station in Ludhiana over an old enmity, said Jalandhar police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar.

Addressing a press conference here, deputy commissioner Varinder Kumar Sharma and Gurpreet Bhullar said acting on a tip-off, a special operation unit of the commissionerate police arrested notorious gangsters, including Jaswinder Singh (the former constable), a resident of Sanjay Gandhi Nagar, Kulwinder Singh of Gurdaspur and Deepak Saini, a resident of Hargobind Nagar Reru, Nurpur, from near the railway track on Suranussi here.

Bhullar said that the police have recovered one 7.65 mm pistol and 14 cartridges from Jaswinder, one 7.65 mm pistol and 11 cartridges from Kulwinder and one sharp-edged weapon with seven cartridges from Deepak Saini.

The police commissioner said that four of their accomplices, including Prince and Bottle, both residents of Bihar, and two unidentified persons were absconding.

He said that Jaswinder Singh was recruited as police constable in 2010, but was dismissed from the force on June 2 last year on the complaint of Navdeep Singh, then station house officer (SHO) of Jalandhar division-8 police, in a drug case.

A case under Sections 25/27/54/59 of the Arms Act and Section 27 of the Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances (NDPS) Act was registered against him at Patna Sahib police station.

Police said the three accused had gone to Patna Sahib and had procured the pistols and cartridges for ₹70,000 from their local contact, the identity of the contact is yet to be ascertained.

Police said that seven cases had been registered against Kulwinder Singh and a countrymade pistol and three live cartridges were also recovered from him on May 23, 2017 by Rama Mandi police.

“The investigation into the case is on and other culprits will be nabbed soon,” the police commissioner said.