Chandigarh: CBI court issues NBWs against suspended SHO

CHANDIGARH: The special court of Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) on Thursday issued non-bailable arrest warrants against suspended and on-the-run SHO of Manimajra police station Jaswinder Kaur in a Rs 5 lakh graft case.
The matter will come up for hearing on July 20. If she is not arrested by the date, then she will be declared a proclaimed offender.
Public prosecutor for CBI KP Singh had moved an application, seeking non-bailable arrest warrants against Jaswinder. Allowing the application, CBI special judge Sushil Kumar Garg ordered, “In view of circumstances mentioned in the application, non-bailable warrant of arrest be issued against the accused Jaswinder Kaur returnable on July 20.”
In the application, the CBI stated that Jaswinder “deliberately and intentionally absconded” despite being asked twice to join the investigation. CBI said she created false evidence in DDR at Manimajra police station that she had returned from CBI office, Sector 30. It also stated how CCTV footage of June 21 of Manimajra police station substantiated the allegations of complainant Gurdeep Singh that the SHO took his signatures under pressure on a blank paper.
One of the constables, Sarbjit Singh, revealed in a statement before the judicial magistrate that the SHO told him to take Gurdeep’s sign on a blank paper and write compromise.
The SHO was booked along with an alleged conduit, Bhagwan Singh, under Section 120-B (criminal conspiracy) and Section 7 and 7A of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, on June 29 on charges of seeking Rs 5 lakh bribe from Gurdeep, a Manimajra resident. Gurdeep had told the CBI that he had already paid Rs 2 lakh to Jaswinder for not lodging a cheating case against him and was to pay Rs 3 lakh more.