In a transfer that would flip the warmth on the Punjab Police brass within the drug mafia nexus case, chief minister Bhagwant Mann on Wednesday directed Punjab Police chief Gaurav Yadav to probe all officers, nevertheless senior they might be, who instantly or not directly helped in drug trafficking, together with those that promoted the now dismissed Inspector Inderjit Singh.

“Depute a senior IPS officer to probe the case associated to FIR No. 1 registered towards Inderjit Singh. Book (dismissed former SSP) Raj Jit Singh below Section 120 (B) of the IPC (for legal conspiracy). All three experiences of the particular investigation crew (SIT) needs to be taken under consideration. The investigating officer ought to study the position of all law enforcement officials involved, nevertheless extremely positioned they might be, who’ve instantly or not directly helped in drug trafficking or smuggling. The investigating officer ought to conclude the investigation inside a month and submit the report,” stated the letter by the particular secretary, house, to the DGP.

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The letter stated: “It is not possible for a low-rank ORP (own rank promoted) inspector to run such a huge network of extortion and drug trafficking alone. Action should be taken against senior officers who approved transfers, promotions, grant of local rank to Inderjit Singh on the recommendations of (now dismissed) Raj Jit Singh, PPS. For identification of such senior officers, relevant files should be sent to the government by 4pm tomorrow (Thursday).”

“It seems from the investigation carried out by the SIT that Inderjit Singh was the favourite of many law enforcement officials. Therefore, please report inside three days whether or not every other SSP/IPS officer had requested for his posting,” the chief minister directed.

The chief minister is performing on the three particular investigation crew (SIT) experiences on the police-drug mafia nexus not too long ago opened by the Punjab and Haryana excessive court docket. Former Moga senior superintendent of police (SSP) Raj Jit Singh Hundal was dismissed from service not too long ago and a vigilance probe was ordered into belongings allegedly amassed by him by promoting narcotics.

“We will not spare anybody concerned in medicine. After opening the sealed cowl experiences, Raj Jit Singh was booked and has been dismissed from service. The vigilance bureau has been requested to probe the wealth he amassed by promoting ‘chitta (heroin)’,” the chief minister had tweeted.

Though Raj Jit Singh was in a roundabout way indicted within the experiences carried out by the SIT to establish his complicity with Inspector Inderjit Singh, who was caught by the particular activity pressure towards medicine with 6kg of heroin, it had urged “definite scope for further inquiry” into hisproperties.

In the letter to the chief director, vigilance bureau, the Punjab house division stated: “The experiences of the SIT recommend that harmless individuals had been falsely implicated for extorting cash from them. Therefore, you’re requested to register an FIR below Sections 7 and 13 of the Prevention of Corruption Act and Section 59 of the NDPS Act and different related provisions of the regulation towards Raj Jit and Inderjit Singh.”