Man held for posing as ADGP’s reader, issuing threats

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Ludhiana: Sadar Raikot police on Friday arrested a man, who claimed to be a reader of the additional director general of police (ADGP) and threatened a family in a property dispute case. The accused has been identified as Maninderjeet Singh of Boparai Khurd.
In her police complaint, Manjit Kaur, wife of Baljinder Singh of Badundi, said as there was no proper road to their house, they went through an adjacent farm. She said for an entryway, they signed a panchayat agreement with her brothers-in-law, Gurdeep Singh and Balveer Singh, as part of which they had to break their wall and give two biswa land.
The complainant said that according to the agreement, they broke the wall, left them two biswa land and constructed a new wall. They added that as per the agreement, Gurdeep Singh was to have his side of the wall plastered, but he retracted from the pact, leading to a conflict.
She said Maninderjeet Singh, who introduced himself as the reader of the ADGP and had been staying at Gurdeep Singh’s house for some time, called them one night and issued threats. He asked us to take back the case against Gurdeep Singh within two days or he would take away their children and ruin their career.
Manjit Kaur said they approached the police, who started a probe. Sadar Raikot police booked the accused under sections 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 170 (personating a public servant) and 506 (criminal intimidation) of the IPC.
Raikot DSP Sukhnaz Singh said the accused was arrested on Friday. Ludhiana (rural) SSP Vivek Sheel Soni confirmed that Maninderjeet was not a policeman.
Police officials said in an audio submitted by the complainant, the accused was confidently saying that he was a reader of a senior officer.