Jalandhar: 3 days on, no clue of stolen car of Punjab hockey chief coach

Tribune News Service
Jalandhar, July 13

Three days after the car of Punjab hockey chief coach Olympian Rajinder Singh was stolen from outside the Guru Gobind Singh stadium, Iqbal Singh Sandhu, general secretary of the Surjit Hockey Society, on Tuesday urged the District Magistrate (DM) and the Commissioner of Police (CP) to issue orders under Section 144 of the CrPC to enable the investigating officer (IO) to procure CCTV footage from private institutions or homes. The development took place after the police failed to find the missing car.

Sandhu, who is also a former Additional District Magistrate, Ludhiana, said the (Swift) car of Punjab hockey chief coach Olympian Rajinder Singh (Dronacharya Awardee) was stolen on July 10 from outside the local Guru Gobind Singh stadium while he was imparting training. The owner of the house, whose CCTV camera is positioned just 10 yards from the incident spot, did not cooperate with the police and refused to show his CCTV recordings. “Earlier, parts of machinery of three air-conditioners installed at Surjit Hockey Society were stolen thrice from the same place and the same owner of the house did not allow the police to go through CCTV recordings,” Sandhu added.

He further said every citizen was required to help the police in investigation and crime detection and also to gather scientific evidence in the form of CCTV footage resulting in the conviction of perpetrators in the court of law but in the absence of a legal order, the investigating officer failed to view the CCTV recorder installed in private establishments and private residences.

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