The accused transferred the government money to a their personal bank account and thereby caused financial loss to the state exchequer.The Ludhiana rural police booked three persons including two retired inspectors of Punjab Police for allegedly making personal use of SUV Toyota Fortuner by using a forged registration number, which was recovered in carjacking case.
According to the police, the accused were not only using the vehicle for personal use but had also allegedly sold it further on the forged number plate.
The SUV was carjacked in 2017 outside a marriage palace in village Dhatt and after the vehicle was recovered the accused didn’t make it a case property. Instead they kept it for their personal use, a probe by the Ludhiana rural police has found.
Those booked have been identified as Inspector Prem Singh (now retired), Inspector Chamkaur Singh (now retired) and their aide Jagseer Singh of Mandi Mullanpur. Inspector Prem Singh was SHO at Mullanpur Dakha police station and Chamkaur Singh was investigation officer of the case.
The FIR against the trio has been registered under sections 409 (criminal breach of trust by public servant), 473 (Making or possessing counterfeit seal etc with intent to commit forgery punishable otherwise) of IPC and section 66 of Punjab Police Act after a long investigation, at Mullanpur Dakha police station.
Dakha DSP Jasbinder Singh said that the snatched car was recovered by the police. However the accused cops changed its number plate and inspector Prem Singh kept it for his personal use. When the matter came to the light, Inspector Prem Singh and Inspector Chamkaur Singh (who was then ASI and the investigating officer of the case) came up with a concocted story and brought in a man Jagseer Singh, who in his statements claimed that he purchased the SUV from a car dealer and gave it to Inspector Prem Singh. However, during the investigation Jagseer failed to provide details of the car dealer from whom he claimed to have purchased the SUV.