EXTORTION RACKET BUSTED, ASI AMONG 7 ARRESTED

JALANDHAR: Police on Friday claimed to have busted an extortion racket with the arrest of seven persons, including an ASI, and seized ₹29.70 lakh from them.

Those arrested are kingpin Paramjit Singh, ASI Paramjit Lal, Ranjit Singh, Kulwinder Singh, Vinod Kumar, Kuldeep Singh and Bachittar Singh.

ASI Paramjit Lal was posted in the police lines, Jalandhar.

Police commissioner Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said Shishpal Singh had lodged a complaint alleging that Paramjit and others had come to his office and demanded financial aid for a cancer patient.

“Paramjit was sentenced to life imprisonment by a Hoshiarpur court in 2008 in kidnapping and extortion case registered in 2005. He jumped three week parole in January 2019 and was declared a proclaimed offender Presently, he was living in Machhiwara by changing name as Manpreet Singh,” he said.

A case under Sections 386, 420 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code was registered.