Prime suspect Karwinder gets relief from HC till December16

PK Jaiswar

Tribune News Service

Amritsar, December 12

The Punjab and Haryana High Court granted relief to Karwinder Singh, prime accused in the fake arms license scam, from arrest till December 16 and sought a reply from the Tarn Taran police in this regard.

Karwinder, who had been evading arrest since the registration of case against him on November 23, had pleaded to the court that he was being falsely implicated by the Tarn Taran police even as he got a clean chit in the previous case registered by the Tarn Taran police in 2016.

Dhurman Nimbale, SSP, Tarn Taran, said that a reply was being prepared to file in the high court. He said this was the fresh case registered regarding busting of fake arms license racket and we have enough proves against him. He said in the previous case also he was not given the clean chit, as he was claiming.

The police official said that a case was registered with the Patti police in June this year following the seizure of illegal arms and fake arms licenses. In the FIR entire staff was nominated without naming anyone as the investigations were under progress. Karwinder would also be interrogated in the case.

Many eyebrows are being raised that how Karwinder managed to get posted in the same branch even as he was facing allegations of preparing fake arms license in the past. According to information, he enjoys a considerable clout among political leaders and therefore managed to get scot free, it is alleged.

The Tarn Taran police busted the fake arms license racket and booked a deputy commissioner’s arms license branch employee Karwinder Singh Cheema, and Manjinder Singh, alias Mani, in connection with preparation of over 200 fake arms license. Investigating into the case, the probe was extended to over 700 arms licenses.

The police also found fake holograms besides some other fake licenses from the shop of Manjinder Singh during a raid. The police sources privy to the investigations revealed that the police were also investigating into the huge properties massed by the two suspects till now.