Niranjan meets DGP, STF chief

Jupinderjit Singh & Deepkamal Kaur

Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, December 22

Former Deputy Director of Enforcement Directorate Niranjan Singh, who had inquired into financial aspects of drugs smuggling cases against former SAD minister Bikram Singh Majithia, held a long meeting with Punjab DGP Sidharth Chattopadhyaya and STF chief Harpreet Sidhu today.

The meeting was held in the backdrop of a drugs smuggling case being registered against Majithia.

Police sources said the meeting was informal. They said Niranjan was called by senior officers to get an update on the investigation and if there were any clues which could not be brought on record earlier for some reason. Niranjan reportedly discussed his findings in the case which he had started probing seven years ago at the time when summons were issued by him to Majithia on December 26, 2014.

The sources said the DGP and the STF chief sought the former ED official’s support in strengthening the case against the Akali leader. They asked him about the contents of various reports that he had filed against Majithia and his accomplices, including Canadian NRIs Satpreet Sigh, alias Satta, Parminder Singh, alias Pindi, Amrinder Singh, alias Laddi and Jagjit Chahal.

Niranjan is learnt to have told the officials that since he had retired, he was no longer in possession of the documents. However, he told Punjab Police officers about various reports on the related matters which he had submitted in the Punjab and Haryana High Court and about those lying in the ED office in Jalandhar.

The retired ED official has been maintaining that since the entire matter related to the allegations levelled by Jagdish Bhola could be built only upon questioning of the NRI trio, they should be extradited to India for proceeding in the matter.