MISSING ₹6.65 CR: FIR AGAINST 2 COPS, INFORMER
ANOTHER PROBE 4-member SIT formed to investigate the role of senior police officials
JALANDHAR/CHANDIGARH : Following directions of the Punjab DGP, the crime branch in Mohali booked two assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) Joginder Singh and Rajpreet Singh and an informer, Surinder Singh of Pathankot, on Friday , days after ₹6.65 crore allegedly went missing after the Khanna police raid on the premises of Father Anthony Madasserry at Partappura village in Jalandhar on March 29.
JALANDHAR/CHANDIGARH : Following directions of the Punjab DGP, the crime branch in Mohali booked two assistant sub-inspectors (ASIs) Joginder Singh and Rajpreet Singh and an informer, Surinder Singh of Pathankot, on Friday , days after ₹6.65 crore allegedly went missing after the Khanna police raid on the premises of Father Anthony Madasserry at Partappura village in Jalandhar on March 29.
Officials privy to the development said the role of Khanna DSP and counter intelligence DSP is also under the scanner even as three accused are untraceable. The case has been registered under Sections 406 (criminal breach of trust), 34 (acts done by several persons of common intention) of IPC and 13(1) and 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act at the state crime branch, Mohali.
The FIR was registered a day after the one-member SIT of IG Praveen Sinha submitted a report to the DGP, pointing to fair chances of money being pilfered during the raid.
The DGP also constituted another SIT headed by Sinha with Jalandhar commissioner, Patiala SSP and AIG (crime) as its member to probe the case. “This SIT will look into the modus operandi adopted in the operation and the role of senior police,” said DGP Dinkar Gupta.
A day after the raid, Khanna SSP Dhruv Dahiya said Father Anthony and his aides were arrested from a checkpoint in Doraha with unaccounted cash worth ₹ 9.66 crore . But, on March 31, Anthony, accused the cops of showing just ₹9.66 crore of the total seizure of ₹16.65 crore.
After the raid on March 29, a police party left the priest’s house with the boxes of cash. This team reached Khanna. However, the three accused remained at Anthony’s house.