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Criminalisation
of Punjab polity: The shrieking evidence
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JALANDHAR:
Criminalisation of politics is a much talked about subject in India
but what happened in Jalandhar in the last fortnight is an eye
opener. A builder's son was kidnapped, and his family paid a ransom
of Rs 1 crore without getting the police into the picture, but the
fact got leaked out. Now it turns out that an elected councillor of
Jalandhar Municipal Corporation and close associate of the MP from
Jalandhar was directly involved in the kidnapping.
Four of the eight
kidnapping suspects in the Rs 1 crore ransom case, including Sukhmit
Singh "Deputy", councillor and close aide of a MP Rana Gurjit Singh,
a liquor manufacturer, have surrendered. Case was cracked by DIG (Jalandhar
Range) Narinder Pal Singh and Senior Superintendent of Police Arpit
Shukla. Apart from the councillor, others who have surrendered are
Gurinder Singh Ginda of village Bir Pind in Nakodar, Jasbir Singh
Jassi of village Goore and Jatinder Singh Saabi of the Basti Peer
Daad locality in Jalandhar.
It seems Deputy
hatched the conspiracy to kidnap Micky, son of real-estate developer
Subash Kumar Nanda of Mota Singh Nagar in Jalandhar. Deputy knew the
victim family well. Some other accused are still at large. The
ransom and the weapons used in the crime were yet to be recovered.
Another councillor Dinesh Dhall "Kaali" had been detained earlier
and is likely to be summoned anytime again.
The kidnappers had
lured the developer's son into a trap, the family had to pay them Rs
1 crore for his release. The money was thrown over a railway bridge
near Rajpura from a moving train. Soon after, Micky was pushed out
of a moving car on the Nakodar Road in Jalandhar.
23 January 2008
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