Senior Punjab Police Official Caught Taking Bribe

Soul_jyot · #1 (**permalink**) 13-Jul-2011, 03:35 AM

July 12, 2011

Senior Punjab Police official caught taking bribe
Tribune News Service

Chandigarh, July 12

The CBI today arrested Punjab Additional Inspector General (AIG), Internal Vigilance Department, Paramdeep Singh Sandhu while taking a bribe of Rs 50,000. The official, who has a tainted past, was taking bribe to favour the complainant in an inquiry pending against him.

Punjab Police Service (PPS) official Sandhu was earlier arrested in connection with the infamous Moga sex scandal along with some senior police officials and the son of a former Akali leader three years ago. The CBI is yet to receive prosecution sanction in that case as the request for sanction is still pending with the Home Department of the state. Today, he was arrested from a coffee shop in Sector 28 and was later taken to the Bhakra Beas Management Board guesthouse in Sector 35 for further interrogation by the CBI.

CBI officials said they laid a trap after receiving a complaint from a Mohali resident Nishant Sharma, former Shiv Sena Youth Wing president, who alleged that PS Sandhu was demanding Rs 3 lakh for favouring him in an inquiry pending against him. Nishant has been booked for cheating and forgery (cases have been registered against him at different police stations of Punjab) and two inquiries are pending against him with AIG Sandhu. CBI officials also raided Sandhu’s house in Sector 28 and seized some documents. A case under various sections of the Prevention of Corruption Act has been registered against the accused. He will be produced in the court of a special CBI judge tomorrow. In 2008, Sandhu was the SP (headquarters), Moga, when he was arrested along with former SSP (Moga) DS Garcha in connection with a sex scandal. It was alleged that the accused police officials, in connivance with others, extorted money from people, threatening to implicate them in false rape cases.
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source: http://www.tribuneindia.com/2011/20110713/main5.htm

Soul_jyot · #2 (**permalink**) 13-Jul-2011, 22:15 PM

Court sends tainted Punjab cop to judicial custody

IANS

Wednesday, 13 July 2011

CHANDIGARH: Assistant Inspector General of Punjab Police P.S. Sandhu, who was arrested by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) Tuesday for accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000, was sent to 14-day judicial remand by a local court here Wednesday.

Sandhu, who was posted at the Punjab Police headquarters in the city, was produced in the court of additional and sessions judge Lalit Batra as the CBI's special court was closed. He was produced amid strong security cover.
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Nishant Sharma, resident of Punjab's Kharar town, around 15 km from here, had submitted a written complaint against Sandhu.

The complaint said that Sandhu was demanding a bribe of Rs.300,000 for favouring him (Nishant) in inquiries pertaining to cases registered against him. He was arrested while accepting a bribe of Rs.50,000 as part payment at a coffee house in Chandigarh," said a CBI official.

Sandhu, a Punjab Police Service (PPS) official, has a controversial past. He was been earlier arrested in connection with his involvement in the infamous 2007 Moga sex scandal, around three years ago.

source: http://www.punjabnewsline.com/conten...-custody/32239

Gyani Jarnail Singh · #3 (**permalink**) 13-Jul-2011, 22:46 PM

aha..he must have upset the badals...otherwise who can touch him ??