Fake promotion orders: Many Punjab Police officials involved, suspect Chandigarh Police

Tribune News Service

Ramkrishan Upadhyay

Chandigarh, January 19

The Chandigarh Police suspect that many Punjab Police officials were involved in the alleged forgery of promotion orders of 11 personnel issued under the name of a former Punjab Director General of Police (DGP).

The police made the claim while seeking a remand of the five accused arrested in the case. The police produced the accused, Sandeep Kumar, Mani Katoch, Bahadur Singh, Satwant Singh and Sarabjit Singh, before a court today and sought their remand for 10 days. However, the court allowed their four-day police custody.

On a complaint of a Deputy Superintendent of Police, on behalf of the Punjab Police, the UT police had registered a case against unidentified persons on January 12. The complainant alleged forgery in the promotion orders. The names of many constables, senior constables, sub-inspectors and assistant sub-inspectors were mentioned in the alleged promotion orders issued under the signatures of former Punjab DGP S Chattopadhyaya.

The police claimed that during the course of investigation, all arrested accused confessed to the crime and disclosed that they had prepared forged orders many times. The police claimed that the order was prepared in personal laptops and computers of the accused. The police said the case was very sensitive in nature and the accused were allegedly not cooperative as they had changed their statement many times.

The police said it was a big scam and the promotion/transfer orders were issued by using the signature of the DGP, Punjab, without following any rules. Many police officials of the Punjab Police were involved in this case, they claimed.

While justifying the demand for a 10-day remand, the Chandigarh Police said they were to recover laptops/computers used to prepare the fake order and kept at Amritsar, Jalandhar and Patiala.

Naveen Upadhyay, the counsel of Bahadur Singh, claimed that the accused was falsely implicated in the case. While opposing the remand, the counsel said there was nothing to be recovered from the accused.

Meanwhile, the counsel moved an application before the court for production of the CCTV footage of the Sector 3 police station for the last three days.

Case registered on January 12

• On a complaint of a Deputy Superintendent of Police, on behalf of the Punjab Police, the UT police had registered a case against unidentified persons on January 12. The complainant alleged forgery in the promotion orders.
• The names of many constables, senior constables, sub-inspectors and assistant sub-inspectors were mentioned in the alleged promotion orders issued under the signatures of former Punjab DGP S Chattopadhyaya.

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