SHO Pancheri attached, SI suspended, probe ordered
Murder accused taken to deceased’s residence for beating in lieu of money
Sumit Sharma. Updated: 6/14/2019 11:25:07 AM

JAMMU: In what was a brazen violation of prison norms, two senior officers of Police Station Pancheri allegedly received Rs 1 lakh as bribe from the family to two murder accused persons, only to take the accused to the residence of the family of the deceased in lieu of Rs 2 lakh from them, where the family beat the duo blue-and-black.

Taking cognisance of the shocking incident, SSP Udhampur Rajiv Pandey has attached the Station House Officer while suspending his sub-ordinate Sub-Inspector and ordered a probe into the incident.

On May 30, one Bodh Raj son of Krishan Lal of village Ladda was murdered by two brothers namely Rashpal Singh and Balbir of same village after a brief scuffle.

The reason behind the scuffle was stated to be the old enmity as Bodh Raj was once booked on the complaint of the duo accused brothers over some land dispute.

After the incident of murder, Panchari police arrested the accused brothers and later, lifted their mother namely Kaushyala Devi, their sister Nisha Devi and their sister-in-law Rasika Kumari.

“Sub Inspector Ashiq Ali posted in Pancheri police station demanded rupees one lakh from the family members to release them which were fulfilled in two installments of Rs 40,000 and Rs 60,000,” official sources said.

“When the deceased’s family realized that the money was being exchanged, they allegedly offered huge amount to the cops in police station following which the cops allegedly took the accused brothers to the residence of the aggrieved family, which beat the duo blue and black,” they added.

Meanwhile, taking cognizance of the incidents, SSP Udhampur Rajiv Pandey placed SI Ashiq Ali under suspension and ordered enquiry into the matter.

Additional SP Udhampur Rajinder Katoch was asked to hold probe into the incident. “Addl SP Udhampur has been asked to hold probe for the involvement of number of cops in the incident’, said the SSP.

The SSP also attached Inspector Farooq Khatib who was posted as SHO Pancheri to District Police Lines Udhampur for negligence.

SSP Pandey later posted Inspector Varinder Gupta as SHO Pancheri.

Pandey took cognizance based on the complaint lodged by one Rattan Kumar,the third brother of the accused. He narrated entire story of the incidents bit by bit to the SSP Udhampur following which action was taken.



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