CHANDIGARH: Punjab Government today transferred Tarn Taran SSP Gurmeet Singh Chauhan and placed the services of five other cops including a SHO under suspension on the complaint of Tarn Taran MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpur.
This suspendefd includes Goindwal Sahib SHO Sukhbir Singh, CIA incharge SI Prabhjit Singh, SI Surjit Singh and ASIs Paramdip Singh and Hardeep Singh. They have been charged with torturing MLAs brother-in-law Nishan Singh arrested alongwith ten others in an illegal mining case.
The SSP had claimed that police had seized one excavator and ten tipper trucks in a raid at site of illegal mining on last Tuesday night. The suspended police officers allegedly tortured Nishan Singh to name MLA in the mining case.
MLA Manjinder Singh Lalpura in a facebook post had alleged that police has hached a conspiracy against him to take reveng against him as he had raised the issue of corruption in the SSP office.