Another Punjab Police cop held for extortion

The police have arrested two persons, including a Punjab Police cop, and booked another for extortion and kidnapping of a Sector 77 clinic owner.

Babbanjeet Singh of 3rd Commando Battalion, a Moga resident, is posted as a gunman of a retired bureaucrat. His accomplice, Abohar native Manpreet Sandhu has also been arrested, while co-accused Jind Sandhu is absconding.

This is the second case in Mohali in the past 10 days where cops extorted money from medics by threatening them with implication in NDPS cases during the ongoing Yudh Nashian Virudh campaign.

The DSP (City 2), Harsimran Singh Bal, said Raman Kumar, owner of a clinic in Sohana village, had complained that two persons came to his clinic on March 8 afternoon and placed drugs in his shop. Later, both came wearing Punjab Police uniform, and introduced themselves as CIA Staff personnel. They threatened him with implication in an NDPS case and allegedly took his phone along with Rs 30,000 from the cash box.

The two policemen forced him to sit in a car and allegedly demanded Rs 2 lakh for releasing him. A sum of Rs 42,500 was transferred to the UPI account of Jind Sandhu.

Bal said the absconding accused would be arrested soon. A case of extortion, criminal intimidation, criminal conspiracy and theft has been registered at the Sohana police station.

Previous case

Constable Jasbir Singh Sandhu, posted in the PCR wing, and two others were held for extorting money from a chemist at gunpoint in Kharar on Sunday. Sandhu and his aide, Uday Pratap, a resident of Kharar, had demanded Rs 1 lakh from the chemist by threatening him with implication in a false NDPS Act case.