Moga : Former in charge of the local CIA Staff, Satnam Singh, who was booked by the local police on charges of corruption, extortion, illegal detention and torture, is still evading arrest and allegedly creating pressure on senior officials in the Police Department to evade arrest. He is also allegedly taking the help of senior leaders of the ruling SAD and close relatives of Paramdeep Singh Gill, DGP of the state, who also hails from this town. The controversial cop, who does not have a good track record in service, is said to enjoy the sympathy of a lobby of some senior police officials who patronised his “misdeeds” because if he is arrested and interrogated, he could reveal a widespread network of corruption allegedly prevailing in the Moga police with the help of political leadership. The police had registered an FIR against him under Sections 323, 342, 385, IPC, and Section 13 (2) of the Prevention of Corruption Act, 1988, on Thursday following directions of the high court. As many as 16 local chemists, who furnished affidavits levelling allegations of corruption against him, have alleged that a few senior police officials may try to save him to save their skin; otherwise, he could land them in trouble.
The ‘victims’ of this cop, from whom he took lakhs of rupees as bribe, met here yesterday and decided to file a petition in the high court, in which they will demand handing over the investigation of his case to the CBI.Even after one year of his suspension, the Police Department has so far not completed the inquiry regarding allegations of corruption levelled against him by local chemists. The police had raided his house on Friday morning but it seemed just a formality. Sources in the police said that someone from the local police informed the cop prior to the raid, due to which he fled before the police reached his house. The local chemists had alleged that the cop under the patronage of some senior police officials had devised a method of “recovery of a mysterious powder” to register criminal cases against them. Threatening to slap cases under the NDPS Act, he used to collect lakhs of rupees from them. Interestingly, in many laboratory test reports of the “mysterious powder” conducted by the state forensic laboratory, nothing serious was found except the composition of certain chemicals used in drugs, which were normally sold to patients on the prescription of doctors.
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