Charges framed against ex-DSP

Tribune News Service

Mohali, May 22

After a span of nearly 27 years, the CBI special court here today framed charges in a case of abduction of Baba Charan Singh’s brother Gurdev Singh, alias Jagdev Singh, against a former Punjab Police official.

The charges of abduction and criminal conspiracy under Sections 364 and 120 B of the IPC were framed against Gurmit Singh, the then DSP posted at Tarn Taran, in the special CBI court here today.

According to sources, the police had picked Baba Charan Singh, his three brothers, a brother-in-law and a son in 1992 for some investigations but after that none of them returned. The CBI, which had been investigating the case for the past around 22 years after registering a case of kidnapping and criminal conspiracy on May 2, 1997, had filed different chargesheets at different times in the court. In the chargesheet of this case, the CBI had stated that a police team, headed by the then DSP Gurmit Singh had raided the house of Gurdev Singh, alias Jagdev Singh, brother of Baba Charan Singh, at Prenie village in Uttar Pradesh and picked him from there on August 20, 1992.