Deepak Pareek is new SSP of Tarn Taran

Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP), Tarn Taran, Abhimanyu Rana, an IPS officer of the 2018 batch who was transferred from here on administrative grounds, relinquished his charge soon after his transfer orders were issued by the Home Department, Government of Punjab, on Monday. Deepak Pareek, a 2014 batch IPS officer, who is to succeed Abhimanyu Rana, is yet to take charge. When contacted, Pareek said that he is yet to assume his duties and said he would inform when he does so. Abhimanyu Rana has been posted as the AIG, Intelligence, SAS Nagar.

The development has been correlated to his tussle with Manjinder Singh Lalpura, AAP MLA from Khadoor Sahib in Tarn Taran district, who had posted on his Facebook page against the way in which a case was registered in connection with the death of sub-inspector Charanjit Singh. SI Charanjit Singh was shot dead in a firing incident that took place in Kot Muhammad Khan on April 8.

Inspector Prabhjit Singh, SHO, Goindwal Sahib police station, the Investigating Officer in the case, registered a case in this regard and nominated 70 persons as the accused while 20 were arrested on the intervening night of April 8-9. Kuldeep Singh, village sarpanch, closely associated with the Khadoor Sahib MLA and his family members including his father, was also arrested by the police.

MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura, in his post on Facebook, levelled serious allegations against the SSP by saying that he (SSP) not only distorted the facts of the incident of the SI’s killing but also pressurised the subordinate police officers to register the case from a specific angle.

With the pressure building on the police, eight persons arrested in the case including Kuldeep Singh, a close associate of the MLA, were released from the jail.