ASI Dilbag Singh was arrested by the Crime Branch in Patiala, in connection with a fraud of Rs 6.5 crore from Father Anthony's house. Dilbagh had helped the accused and kept the car included in the incident hidden behind him. Khanna police had raided the house of father Anthony in Pratappura of Jalandhar. Two ASI Joginder and Rajpreet were included in the team that day. Police informer Surinder was also with him.
All three embezzled the amount of 6.5 million Both ASI were posted in Patiala, but they were temporarily attached to the SSP in Khanna on 24th March from Patiala. Crime Branch's IG Praveen Sinha had imposed a robbery case in the case. During the investigation of this case,
it was found that ASI Dilbagh Singh, assisted by both ASI Rajpreet and Joginder, helped in Patiala.
In the interrogation of the arrested accused Surinder Singh, it has been revealed that the money raised from the house of the priest was filled in empty sacks of manure and potato. This money was in one or two sacks. Apart from this, money was also changed in Khanna. In this regard, when the police team went to investigate the CCTV footage of SI Joginder Singh's house, only cameras could be found there, while the recording was not there.
On Tuesday, the six-day remand of the accused was presented in the court after the end of the remand. To take the remand again, the team of the State Crime Branch kept several arguments, after which the court sent the accused to a remand of 4 days. At the same time, the bail application of absconding SI Joginder Singh and Rajpreet Singh will be heard on Wednesday. The arrest warrants of both the courts have been issued by the court. The court has ordered the police to control both of them.
The accused, Surinder, said in the interrogation that he was given a cash award of Rs two lakh only for giving cash related information. There is no stake in the missing cash. He has no more information about this.
In this case, the police had added Section 392 and 120 B of the IPC in the last few days. However, before the accused, the case was registered under section 406, 34 of the IPC and under the Prevention of Corruption Act.
