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Friday,
June 13, 2003, Chandigarh, India  
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Another case slapped on Badal’s kin Lambi (Muktsar), June 12 The case was registered under Section 489 (A&B) of the IPC (pertaining to possession and use of counterfeit currency); Sections 18 and 21 of the NDPS Act (pertaining to possession and dealing in narcotics); Section 4/5 of the Explosive Act; and Section 25 of the Arms Act against him. Mr Dhillon belongs to Badal village which falls in the jurisdiction of the Lambi police station. Information gathered by TNS revealed that case was registered in a bid to pre-empt the move of Mr Dhillon to secure bail from the Punjab and Haryana High Court against his arrest in any criminal case. Mr Surinder Pal Singh, SSP, when contacted on the phone, confirmed the registration of the case. He said the recovery of counterfeit currency and explosive from him would be effected after he was formally arrested and remanded in police custody. It has been learnt that a section of senior and junior police officials of this region was summoned to Chandigarh for directing them to keep tabs on the movements of close confidants of Mr Sukhbir Badal and Mr Parkash Singh Badal.  |
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Remanded in police custody Kharar, June 12 Duty Magistrate Ranjan Kumar Khullar directed the prosecution to produce the accused before the Ilaqa Magistrate at Kharar on Saturday till 4 p.m. Besides allowing the defence counsels to meet the accused daily between 6 and 7 p.m. during the police remand, the court also directed to get the accused medically examined and provide him basic amenities while in custody. The court also issued search warrants of Dhillon’s three houses located at Shimla, Mehroli farmhouse near Delhi and Badal village in Muktsar district. Punjab Vigilance Bureau SP Surinder Pal Singh produced the accused before the court here.
Public prosecutors submitted before the court that the accused was arrested by the Vigilance Bureau under the FIR against Mr Badal’s OSD Hardeep Singh Bhamra, against whom proclamation had been issued and his application for pre-arrest bail declined by the apex court. It was argued that Dhillon was very close to the Badal family and he, in connivance with Bhamra,
used to collect huge amounts of money and pass it on to his political bosses. The prosecution alleged that Dhillon also used to “convert black money into white money and transfer it to the Badals through bank transactions, the entries of which were available.” It was further alleged that Dhillon had accepted Rs 20 lakh from SP Shiv Kumar for his promotion as SSP, Rs 12 lakh from a leading jeweller of Chandigarh, Nikka Mal Babu Ram, for getting his son recruited as ASI and Rs 3 lakh from one Jimi Bajaj for getting his personal work done at the government level. But in all these cases, neither the promised work was done nor was the money returned. The court was informed that during preliminary interrogation, the accused had confessed that he had got Rs 1.16 crore from Bhamra, who was expected to be hiding at his Mehroli farmhouse. It was argued that Dhillon was
providing asylum to absconding Bhamra and he had information of his stay, which was yet to be ascertained from him. PTI |
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