on Friday 6:30 9 am PATIALA: team of sleuths of the Central Bureau of Investigation ( CBI carried out raids at the Patiala and Ferozepur residences of Inspector General of Police (Ferozepur range), Gurwinder Singh Dhillon, in connection with a complaint filed by a former Senior Superintendent of Police Shiv Kumar Sharma, against whom the IG had recently ordered re-initiating of action in the 2009 Patwari harassment case.The team of CBI descended on the Patiala and Ferozepur residences of the IG late in the night and stayed there tillin the morning, after which the sleuths met the officer at his office in Ferozepur at aroundand posed him a few questions.It is to be mentioned that former SSP Shiv Kumar Sharma, against whom Dhillon had ordered re-initiation of action and is also conducted the pending inquiry in the infamous patwari harassment case, had recently filed a complaint against the IG alleging large-scale corruption, following which the raids were carried out.Confirming the development, Dhillon said it was the last attempt by Shiv Kumar Sharma to override the investigations against him as he had been trying to pressurise the investigating team to drop the case. He said cops had core material evidence against the former SSP, who is facing charges under Sections under Sections 377, 511, 211, 295-A, 120 B in the 2012 FIR that was registered against him against three other SSPs on orders of the then chief minister Prakash Singh Badal.While the CBI has so far not issued a formal statement regarding the raids, Dhillon said he was unaware about the contents of the complaint as no copy had been provided to him. He said the agency asked him certain questions to which he gave his replies, after which the team left.It was after a detailed inquiry conducted by an Dhillon that the state police had re-initiated action in a 2012 FIR registered against four superintendents of the police along with two others for torturing a patwari (revenue official) by registering a false case against him in 2009 as he had asked for government Rs 20 from Shiv Kumar Sharma to furnishing details of his land records.Fresh charges were also added to the FIR registered against the four SSPs including Shiv Kumar Sharma, Surinderpal Singh Virk, Jaspal Singh and SS Grewal, who were given a clean chit by the state police in 2013.The action had come after the complainant Patwari Mohan Singh Bhedpur had move a plea before the new government in Punjab to re-investigate the matter as the department had given these cops a clean chit.As per the complainant, he had been picked up by the cops at the behest of SSP Sharma and tortured in police custody as he had demanded a government fee of Rs 20 from Sharma for providing him with the land records of his property in Rurki village in Fatehgarh Sahib. He had alleged that Sharma and even asked a constable to sodomise him in police custody and filmed the act.Dhillon had also ordered action against IO Raghbir Singh Sandhu, who had given clean chit to the four SSPs. Earlier, IAS officer KS Pannu had also conducted a probe into the allegations made by Mohan Singh and had indicted six police officials in the caseAs per the records, on November 19, 2009, senior superintendent of police (SSP), VB, Patiala range, ShivKumar Sharma (now retired) asked revenue patwari Mohan Singh Bhedpur for a revenue record of his land in Fatehgarh Sahib’s Rurki village.Mohan Singh delivered a copy of the record to the officer and asked for the government fee of Rs 20. After this, he was allegedly implicated in a corruption case pertaining to the paddy scam in Punjab State Civil Supplies Corporation (PUNSUP) and was arrested and tortured in police custody during which a constable was asked to sodomise him. He had spent five days in police custody. All this was done at the behest of Shiv Kumar Sharma and the other officers indicted by the probe conducted by Pannu had helped him in teaching the revenue official a lesson.Following this, Prakash Singh Badal government had ordered a case against the accused cops which was registered at Mallanwala police station in the year 2012. However, the department gave them a clean chit in 2013.Interestingly, during the SAD-BJP regime, SSP Shiv Kumar Sharma had questioned Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh in disproportionate assets case and also arrested DGP SS Virk and CM’s advisor BIS Chahal.

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