Patiala SHO, two other cops booked for graft in drug case

THIS IS THE THIRD MAJOR ACTION AGAINST OFFICIALS SINCE DIST GRIEVANCE REDRESSAL COMMITTEE LAST WEEK; SDM WAS ALSO SHIFTED

PATIALA : A week after a district grievances redressal committee meeting, where four Congress MLAs raised questions over the working of the district police, station house officer (SHO) of Crime Investigation Agency (CIA) police station at Rajpura, inspector Gurjit Singh, sub-inspector (SI) Gurdeep Singh and assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Sahib Singh have been booked for corruption in a case related to drug recovery. Gurjit is also the CIA staff in-charge.

Rajpura MLA Hardial Singh Kamboj had raised the issue at the grievance committee meeting that state cabinet minister Sadhu Singh Dharamsot had chaired. This is the third serious action to have resulted due to the meeting.

The chief secretary had transferred the Patiala SDM, and ordered an inquiry into the charges that MLAs had levelled. A reader of SDM was also suspended. In another matter raised by MLA Madan Lal Jalalpur, another SHO was suspended for not taking action in an attempt to murder case.

SSP Mandeep Singh Sidhu added that following the issues that Kamboj had raised, SP (investigation) was ordered to conduct an investigation. Nearly 3,300 Tramadol salt tablets were bought by an hospital, AP Jain, but it was later found that one Mukesh Kumar of Guru Nanak Medical Store actually bought it. SHO Gurjit and the other staff did not probe and let Mukesh go. It also emerged that Gurjit did not even register an FIR.

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Replying to a notice that Punjab State Women Commission chairperson Manisha Gulati had issued to him for allegedly using foul language against women, Ghanaur MLA Madan Lal Jalalpur has denied the use of derogratory words.