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April 24, 2003, Chandigarh, India
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TRIBUNE INVESTIGATION
Criminal-police nexus exposed
Gambler provides Tehelka-type tapes
Jupinderjit Singh
Tribune News Service
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| Kuldeep Singh, reader of an SHO has been clicked accepting Rs 5,000 from Subhash
Katty. Two PCR cops, who were in police uniform, have also been taped by the satta operator while taking money. Both, however, could not be identified. The videotape also shows an Additional
SHO, Balbir Singh, accepting an amount of Rs 1500. A Head Constable, Milkha Singh is also shown in the video-cassette walking away after pocketing the money.
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Ludhiana, April 23
In a shocking repeat of the Tehelka episode, a criminal-police nexus involving gamblers, murder accused and about 20 policemen of Ludhiana, stands exposed in a video-cassette made secretly by an alleged gambler (darr-satta operator) in the city.At least four policemen, including an additional Station House Officer (SHO) and readers of two more SHOs are clearly shown accepting bribe in the video-cassette, a copy of which has been procured by The Tribune. The film was made through a hidden camera installed at Santosh Agency, owned by Subash Katty near Shingar Cinema, who is allegedly the main person in the
darra-satta (illegal lottery) business as per the police records. The state government loses crores of rupees every year because of the illegal lottery trade. He is one of the scores of persons caught recently by the Ludhiana police while they were indulging in gambling and darra-satta. Many of these were allegedly released without registration of cases and on the payment of a handsome amount, the cassette reveals. The video-cassette shows a free-wheeling conversation of the policemen with Subash Katty and Bittu Chawla, an accused in a murder case. In
the conversation, the cops reveal shocking details of how they twist the arm of the law for filling their own pockets.The cassette shows the policemen talking about cases of all illegal practices for which the police was always suspected. It gives details about several cases of illegal confinement of lottery traders and gambling accused, false implication, planting of recovered items under NDPS or weapons to settle scores with persons not willing to pay, creating false witnesses, forcing witnesses to sit, hushing up murder cases, how a Sub-Inspector of the CIA was doing illegal work and collecting money on behalf of some senior officers in the raids conducted during the last two weeks. The cassette reveals how the policemen inform about the raids in advance. How a raid is conducted at one place and shown at the other. It gives details about a very influential liquor contractor, who was being helped in his business by the district police and in turn how he kept them happy. How he supplied several bottles of Teachers Wine to a police party held to honour PCR cops. The cassette also mentions sketchy details of a case of a brother of an SSP (it is unclear if the SSP is serving in one of the districts of the state or not at this time), from whom 15 kg of opium was recovered but he was let off. Subash Katty who is seen giving the money to the cops confirmed to The Tribune that he had installed the video camera to expose the cops. He claimed in the last 10 years, he has given money to hundreds of cops. He claimed whenever he closed down his business the cops again forced him to do so and if he did not do it, he was falsely implicated in some cases. Katty has sent the video cassette to the Chief Minister , Capt Amarinder Singh, and Mr M S Bhullar, Director-General of Police, Punjab.
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