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Tribune News Service
Amritsar, April 17
Days after a special court acquitted a 71-year-old local resident of drug trade charge, veteran BJP leader Laxmi Kanta Chawla on Wednesday shot a letter to the Punjab State Human Rights Commission (PSHRC) to take notice of this and ensure exemplary punishment to the cops who bungled the victim’s cash. The victim, identified as Raj Kumar, a resident of walled city, said that he had a hefty cash in his house as he had sold a property. However, cops usurped it terming it as drug money.
As per details, the court acquitted Raj Kumar as the prosecution miserably failed to prove the charges against him. The police also failed to get the search conducted besides examining the seized contraband in presence of a senior police official.
The victim informed that seven cops of Kotwali police station raided his house on July 4, 2016 and took away valuables, along with Rs 13 lakh terming it drug money. Later, when he reached the police station, he was informed that he was booked under the NDPS Act with a mention of recovery of 200-gm opium and 98-gm narcotic powder. The police showed seizure of only Rs 8.14 lakh from his house, he said, adding that he had sold a property and kept the money in his house.
Chawla pointed out that during so-called campaigns against illegal drug trade, Punjab Police filed many false cases against a number of families in order to please the government. She alleged in this case nobody knows where was the cash and other valuables seized from the house.
She also urged the PSHRC to get a survey of such false cases registered by the police since 2015 in the name of campaign against drug menace and take appropriate action.
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