PASSPORT SCAM: REMAND OF ACCUSED EXTENDED
Moga November 20:
The police has been looking into the legal possibilities of adding charges under the National Security Act-1980 in the fake passport scam case as the investigating team has got certain clues of a few militants and dreaded criminals having got fake passports from the accused to escape from the country.
Police sources said there were reports that many terrorists and other dreaded criminals of the region had used monetary influence to make fake passports through head constable Jaswinder Singh and constable Ranjit Singh here. “We are deeply looking into each and every passport file processed through the local passport branch from 1995-1996 onwards”, said a police official.
Meanwhile, three alleged accused, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Ranjit Singh and postman Om Prakash, were produced before a local court this afternoon. The court sent the postman to judicial custody for 14 days while the police remand of the two policemen was extended by two days.
Jaswinder Singh had properties across the state and had transferred huge money to the US through hawala. Talking to mediapersons in the court complex, Jaswinder said he did not know anything about the allegations made against him by the police. “I am not involved in the making of fake passports”, he said.
Two FIRs had been registered by the police under Sections 420, 465, 468 and 471, IPC, Section 2/8, Passport Act, and Sections 13 (2) and 88, Prevention of Corruption Act in the scam and many more could be registered as the investigations were still in progress.
Moga November 20:
The police has been looking into the legal possibilities of adding charges under the National Security Act-1980 in the fake passport scam case as the investigating team has got certain clues of a few militants and dreaded criminals having got fake passports from the accused to escape from the country.
Police sources said there were reports that many terrorists and other dreaded criminals of the region had used monetary influence to make fake passports through head constable Jaswinder Singh and constable Ranjit Singh here. “We are deeply looking into each and every passport file processed through the local passport branch from 1995-1996 onwards”, said a police official.
Meanwhile, three alleged accused, Jaswinder Pal Singh, Ranjit Singh and postman Om Prakash, were produced before a local court this afternoon. The court sent the postman to judicial custody for 14 days while the police remand of the two policemen was extended by two days.
Jaswinder Singh had properties across the state and had transferred huge money to the US through hawala. Talking to mediapersons in the court complex, Jaswinder said he did not know anything about the allegations made against him by the police. “I am not involved in the making of fake passports”, he said.
Two FIRs had been registered by the police under Sections 420, 465, 468 and 471, IPC, Section 2/8, Passport Act, and Sections 13 (2) and 88, Prevention of Corruption Act in the scam and many more could be registered as the investigations were still in progress.
