Booked for extortion, bribery, Samana CIA incharge sacked

Patiala, March 3

Over three months after an extortion case was registered against CIA Samana Inspector, the Punjab Police dismissed him from service. The action came after PPCC chief Sunil Jakhar took up the issue with the state DGP.

After registering the FIR, the Patiala police had asked the case be shifted to the Vigilance Bureau for an impartial probe. Following a preliminary probe, the accused inspector, Vijay Kumar, was dismissed by Patiala Zone IG Jatinder Singh Aulakh.

On November 29 last year, the police had registered a case of extortion, kidnapping and corruption against Vijay Kumar and Johny Mittal, a confidante of a Congress MLA, for allegedly threatening to implicate innocent people in NDPS cases or eliminating them in fake encounters.

Complainant Rajwinder Pal of Bathinda, had alleged that the cop targeted him, his friends and a servant when they visited his cousin Suresh Kumar at Dhamu Majra in Patiala on October 18.

Rajwinder alleged that they were taken to the CIA office, beaten up and kept in illegal confinement. “We were threatened that we would be killed in an encounter or an NDPS case would be lodged against us if we failed to pay Rs 50 lakh,” he alleged.

Earlier, Congress MLAs Hardyal Singh Kambhoj, Madan Lal Jalalpur, Rajinder Singh and Nirmal Singh had accused the Inspector of recording their phone calls. — TNS