Punjab Police on Monday dismissed three cops — an Inspector, Assistant Sub-Inspector, and a head constable — from their services for falsely implicating two persons in a drug case and also extorting a huge amount of money from them.
Those dismissed include Inspector Parminder Singh Bajwa, ASI Angrej Singh, and Head Constable Joginder Singh — all posted at Narcotic Control Cell in Ferozepur. They have been dismissed under Article 311 (2) of the Constitution.
Inspector Bajwa has been dismissed by the Inspector General of Police (IGP) Ferozepur range Jaskaran Singh, while ASI Angrej and Head Constable Joginder were dismissed by Ferozepur Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Surendra Lamba for gross negligence of their services.
The Police have also registered an FIR, dated July 25, 2022, against them under sections 166, 167, 195, 471, 218, and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code (IPC); and sections 21, 59, and 13 of the NDPS Act at Police Station Ferozepur Cantt.
“A team of Anti-Narcotic Cell Ferozepur, led by Inspector Bajwa, ASI Angrej, and HC Joginder, in connivance with other cops had arrested two persons on July 20, 2022, and allegedly implicated them in a false drug case by planting one kg heroin and showing recovery of Rs five lakhs from their possession. An FIR was also registered under various sections of the NDPS Act by the accused Inspector Bajwa at Ferozepur Cantonment police station,” said the state Director General of Police (DGP) Gaurav Yadav.
Apparently, the recovery was suspicious to Ferozepur SSP, following which the latter started probing the matter at an internal level, when the Police had also received a complaint from a person alleging fraud of lakhs of rupees with his employee by the accused cops, the DGP said.
DGP Yadav said that during the course of an investigation, primarily it has come to the fore that the accused cops had concocted the entire matter and implicated both persons wrongly with the intention to extort money from them. When the accused cops were confronted regarding the allegations during a detailed inquiry, they had no clarification and later, they also absconded mysteriously further raising the suspicion, he added.
Reiterating the State Government’s firm commitment to make Punjab a drug-free and corruption-free state, DGP Yadav unequivocally said that black sheep in the uniform will not be tolerated. “If any Police officer or official found indulged in any kind of malpractice, he or she will be dealt with severely,” he added.