Dowry victim’s father alleges corruption by senior policemen

DEMANDS CBI PROBE OR AN INQUIRY BY NOT LESS THAN A SITTING SUPREME COURT JUDGE INTO THE CASE

HT Correspondent FEROZEPUR: Varinder Pal Singh, a Ferozepur-based realtor, and father of a dowry victim, on Monday, levelled allegations of corruption against a battery of senior police officers, including a former director general of police (DGP), and demanded a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe or an inquiry by not less than a sitting Supreme Court judge into the case.

Singh alleged that top Punjab police officers were helping the accused from a ‘well-connected’ family of Muktsar and, in connivance with others, had misled the Justice Mehtab Gill Commission, set up to probe “political vendetta” cases. He said presenting the FIR in the dowry case of his daughter as a case of “political vendetta” by the previous SAD-BJP regime, the police are seeking the quashing of the FIR.

‘FACTS DISTORTED TO MISGUIDE COMMISSION’

Officers are distorting the facts to give an impression that the case had been filed out of vendetta, following which the commission had sought a report from 39 police officials, including the DGP, Punjab, he alleged.

Singh said he married his daughter Amandeep Kaur to Tarandeep Singh of Muktsar on November 25, 2013, and spent more than ₹3.2 crore. However, the next day of the wedding, they asked his daughter to get an FD of ₹1.5 crore and a 2-canal plot (at Naya Gaon, Chandigarh) from parents.

Tarandeep and his family then started torturing his daughter and even tried to strangulate her, Varinder alleged.

“We brought her home one month after the wedding. Amandeep Kaur filed a complaint with the police under Sections 307 (attempt to murder), 342 (wrongful confinement), 406 (criminal breach of trust), 498-A (husband or relative of a woman subjecting her to cruelty) and 120-B (criminal conspiracy) of the IPC against Tarandeep and his family.”

AMAN SKODA’S INTERROGATION

During interrogation of infamous swindler Amandeep Kamboj (Aman Skoda) of Punnawala village in Fazilka district (now in custody of Punjab Police), it was revealed that he allegedly took crores of rupees through ‘lawyers’ engaged by Tarandeep and his family to dispose of the case, but due to strong evidence, the accused failed to get any relief from the SIT, which was changed five times, alleged Varinder.

Surinder Pal Singh Parmar, IGP, Punjab, who is heading the SIT to probe the case, ruled out any pressure and added that a challan in one case had been presented before the court against all the accused except two, who are on bail.