Police accused of inaction, registering false cases

Gagandeep Sharma

Tribune News Service

Bathinda, May 19

The district police have been accused of inaction and registering false cases.

Addressing a press conference, Manpreet Kaur, a resident of Dhade village, said their relative Gurcharan Singh and his wife Amarjit Kaur both residents of Mandi Kalan village, took Rs 21 lakh from them as loan. Manpreet said they did not return the money due to which her husband Badal Singh had committed suicide.

The police have registered a case against the accused under section of 306 of the IPC. She accused the police of inaction. Manpreet said the police were not arresting the accused due to political pressure as the couple had joined the Congress.

Shiv Chand, SHO of the Balianwali police station, said, “The police raided the locations of the accused on a number of occasions but they managed to escape. They will be nabbed soon. We are not working under any political pressure.”

Kulwant Kaur, a resident of Dialpura Bhaiga Kothe village, alleged that the Dialpura police are playing into the hand of Congress leaders.

Speaking to the media in Bathinda, she said some Congress workers want to occupy her 22 acres of land at Kothe Surjitpura village and the police are helping them.

She said she had also won a land dispute case in the SDM court. Kulwant Kaur said her complaint was not registered at the police station and the police threatened her to implicate in a false case.

Jatinder Singh, SHO Dialpura police station, said a case had been registered and the matter was being investigated.

Gurjant Singh, president of the Punjab Kisan Union, said a few persons barged into his house and assaulted his family members over some dispute. He alleged that instead of registering a case against the accused, ASI Kuldeep Singh booked his teenager sons Harveer Singh and Jasveer Singh by taking bribe from the accused.

ASI Kuldeep Singh, who is now posted at the Rama police station, said no fake case was registered and both accused were booked in a snatching case after proper investigation.