Dhaliwal, source of fake currency, held

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 6

The UT police late last night arrested Navjot Singh Dhaliwal, the alleged source of the fake currency of Rs 15 lakh and 2.6 kg of opium found in the car of Bhagwan Singh, who was nabbed by the police last month near Maloya.

The police had recently arrested Punjab and Haryana High Court senior advocate Jatin Salwan, retired UT police inspector Tarsem Rana and Narender, a native of Ludhiana, for allegedly planting these items in the car. Salwan and Rana are in judicial custody.

Narender, whose three-day remand ended today, was presented in the court along with Dhaliwal. The court sent Dhaliwal on three-day remand while Narender’s police remand was extended by one more day. 

The prosecuting lawyer earlier told the court that Dhaliwal, who was arrested from Delhi, had supplied the two items to Narender. The police said it wanted to make Narender and Dhaliwal sit together and answer them.

Narender and Gurnihal Singh Peerjada, a retired IAS officer, reportedly had enmity with Sukhbir Singh Shergill. 

The advocate and the retired policemen, along with Narender, allegedly wanted to frame Shergill by putting the items in the car of Bhagwan, who is his accountant.