Eight months on, NRI cell fails to take action in forgery case

Our Correspondent

Hoshiarpur, July 25

On the one hand, the government was claiming of quick redressal of complaints of NRIs while on the other an NRI was suffering at the hands of police personnel who were not acting on their complaints after conniving with accused.

A complaint in this regard has been sent to the Chief Minister by Gurmeet Singh, a resident of Qadian in Gurdaspur district.

Gurmeet, who has the power of attorney of a land of his NRI brother-in-law Manjeet Singh, residing in America, told The Tribune that his sister Surinder Kaur had sent a complaint to the NRI cell eight months ago. She had alleged in her complaint that her husband’s brother had transferred his 51-marla commercial land in Mohalla Kaithan of Dasuya town in his wife’s name on the basis of a forged power of attorney which he claims to be signed by Manjeet on May 5, 1997, in Dasuya while Manjeet had left for the US on May 3, 1997, itself.

Gurmeet alleged that the in-charge of the NRI police station did not took action on the complaint in connivance with the accused and got an agreement forcibly signed in the presence of a retired DSP, who kept abusing them during the time of signing the document.

However,the NRI police station in-charge, Om Parkash, refuted the allegations, saying that the police had nothing to do with the agreement.

He said he got the complaint from the NRI cell headquarters and he was probing the same but after some time both parties had signed an agreement with their mutual consent and it was submitted to him by them that they have reached a compromise and, hence, don’t want any action in the matter.

He said he had nothing to do with the compromise-cum-contract as it was signed by both parties willingly, on a stamp paper in the Tehsil Complex, and not in a police station or before the police.

“If any of them was not abiding with the agreement or the contract signed between them then what can I do in the matter. Its not the job of the police to implement the signed agreement,” said Om Parkash.

The case

Gurmeet, who has the power of attorney of a land of his NRI brother-in-law Manjeet Singh, residing in America, told The Tribune that his sister Surinder Kaur had sent a complaint to the NRI cell eight months ago. She had alleged in her complaint that her husband’s brother had transferred his 51-marla commercial land in Dasuya in his wife’s name on the basis of a forged power of attorney which he claims to be signed by Manjeet on May 5, 1997, in Dasuya while Manjeet had left for the US on May 3, 1997, itself.