Cop, 2 others booked for cheating on pretext of job

PATIALA: Police here have booked three persons including a second commandant posted at PAP Bahadurgarh for cheating a local resident on the pretext of clerical job in a government department. The Pasiana police have registered the case under sections of cheating and criminal conspiracy on Friday evening but are yet to arrest any of the accused.
The case was registered against these accused on the complaint of a local resident who works as a barber and is also a son of government Punjab-Armed Police (PAP) employee who also works as a barber and is posted at Bahadurgarh Commando complex.

The complainant Gurmeet Ram told police that he was falsely promised a clerical government job in the department of Punjab State Power Corporation Limited (PSPCL) by the accused Gurdeep Singh, Prem Singh of Gian Colony Sular in Patiala who is a driver at PSPCL and accused Bhupinder Singh, a lift operator at PSPCL.

Puran Ram, father of complainant said that accused Gurdeep Singh who is second commandant 36th battallion PAP Bahadurgarh guaranteed us of the clerical job in PSPCL. My son Gurmeet Ram is a class ten qualified and is running his private shop as a barber and we all fell into the net of these accused. We all family members took loans from family and friends and gave Rs 5 lakh to the accused Gurdeep Singh. I am also posted here under 36th battalion PAP and working as a barber. Gurdeep in 2016 came to our house and claimed that he can provide the job to my son Gurmeet in PSPCL as the posts of clerical are out. For a long time the accused failed to get us a job as he promised and then he also failed to return us the money. He then gave us a cheque of Rs 5 lakh that also got bounced. After this, we filed a complaint with the police and it was August last year when police started an investigation. A case is registered against these accused including the Gurdeep Singh who is the prime accused."

Station House Officer officiating, Hans Raj said, "The case is registered against the accused and we are investigating the matter deeply. The cheque was bounced. On the complaint of the victim, we have booked these accused but all are yet to be arrested."