Ranjeet Singh Kohli, alias Raquibul Hassan, accused of deceit, torture and running a sex racket by his estranged wife Tara Shahdeo, on Tuesday during his custodial interrogation, revealed to the police that his struggle for family pension for his mother Kaushalya Rani, alias Kausar Parveen brought him closer to judicial officers following which he started working as a broker in the judiciary managing cases for others.
Kohli’s father Harman Kohli was an officer with the Sales Tax Department and Kaushalya worked as a maid in his house. later, she is said to have married Harman after his first wife died.
According to sources, Kohli, whose father died in 1981, was brought up by his mother in destitution as her mother did not get any family pension due to lack of follow-up and the attitude of the government officials. As he grew up, he started exploring for the family pension for which Kaushalya was entitled to.
Kohli further said that he met several Government officials in the commercial taxes department and using his communication skills developed a good rapport with them. He also met some higher officials in the department in Patna who also helped him in getting several papers, which were required to get the pension for his mother.
In the meantime, he also started understanding the functioning of the system in the Government. In the year, 1996-97, he was asked to bring succession certificate of his mother from the court in order to make a claim to his father’s pension.
Kohli then started running around the court for getting succession certificate which took him over one and a half years. During this period, Kohli got in touch with a number of junior level judges in Gumla and some retired judges and took advice in this regard as and when required.
Finally, his mother started getting pension after 1997-98. Meanwhile, he was in contact with several junior level judicial officers, including Mustaque Ahmed who was posted in Gumla at that time.
Meanwhile, on the recommendation of some judges, he also managed to get pension of some retired judges also, who were not getting their pension due to one reason or other. Finally, Ranjeet Singh Kohli became Raquibul Hassan after running around Government offices and courts for so many years.
Ranchi police on Tuesday interrogated Nagar Utari DSP Surjeet Singh, who is also a childhood friend of Kohli.
The police issued notices to three DSPs whose names surfaced in the case, but only Singh was available for interrogation. The other two Torpa SDPO Anudeep Singh and Deoghar SDPO Animesh Nethani are expected to arrive tomorrow.
According to police, Singh, interrogated for over one and a half hours, denied any involvement in any of the illegal activities alleged in the statements recorded by the victim. Singh asserted that he knew Kohli since childhood as they were residing in the same locality.