SIT to probe drug ‘frame-up’ case

Tribune News Service

Moga, July 19

Gurpreet Singh Toor, SSP, has constituted a three-member Special Investigation Team (SIT) to probe the allegations of false implication of local resident Parminder Singh in a case under the NDPS Act and the Arms Act, registered on March 31.

The police had arrested Parminder Singh, along with Sukhwinder Singh alias Sukha and Rajwinder Singh alias Raju, both natives of Zira subdivision in Ferozepur district, and recovered 490 gm of intoxicating powder and two revolvers from them. They are presently in judicial custody.

The police claimed that on the intervening night of March 12 and 13, the accused burnt an SUV of Inderjit Garg, a businessman and president of the Nihalsinghwala Municipal Council. Garg claimed he had received ransom calls from gangsters.

Parminder’s family members had met Leader of Opposition Sukhpal Khaira and requested him to take up the case. Khaira wrote a letter to CM Capt Amarinder Singh, seeking an independent probe. The CM had asked DGP Suresh Arora to look into the matter.

The SIT comprises DSP (investigation) Satpal Singh, DSP (headquarters) Harinder Singh Dod and SHO, City-I police station, Gurpreet Singh.