SAS Nagar, March 12- Mohali Police have arrested a person named Babanjit Singh posted in the 3rd Commando Battalion and his accomplice Manpreet Sandhu on the charge of extorting cash from Raman Kumar, who runs a bone clinic in village Sohana, by threatening to implicate him in a drug case.
Giving information in this regard, DSP City 2 Mr. Harsimran Singh Bal said that these persons have been arrested under the leadership of Inspector Simran Singh, Chief Officer of Police Station Sohana, as part of the campaign being conducted against anti-social elements under the leadership of SSP Mr. Deepak Pareek.
He said that Raman Kumar, who runs a bone treatment clinic in Sector 77, Sohana, had filed a complaint that on March 8, Babanpreet Singh (who was claiming to be an employee of the CIA staff) came to his shop wearing a Punjab Police uniform and took out some narcotics from his pocket and kept them in his clinic and said that you sell narcotics. Later, Babanjit took out a phone and Rs 30,000/- in cash from his clinic and made him sit in his car and demanded Rs 2 lakh in exchange for leaving. He said that the police have registered a case against Babanjit Singh alias Bablu, resident of Nanak Nagari, Moga, and Manpreet Sandhu alias Mannu Sandhu, resident of Anand Nagari, Abohar, district Fazilka, under sections 308(2), 303(2), 35,61(2), 351(2) of the IPC and arrested both of them. He said that during the investigation, Babanjit Singh told the interrogation that he was recruited in the 3rd Commando Battalion and is now a retired IAS officer and is posted as a gunman.
Babanjit's associates Manpreet Sandhu and Jind Sidhu, along with them, threatened the shopkeeper from the medical shop, pretended to be CIA staff, took money from the mobile phone and sent Rs. 42500/- to Jind Sandhu's Google Pay. He said that Jind Sandhu's arrest is yet to be made in this case and these persons will be interrogated thoroughly after obtaining police remand.