| SHO joins hands with cattle smugglers, gets huge money as bribe | | |
Early Times Report
JAMMU, May 26: A police officer, who is SHO of a police station falling under the administrative control of Jammu district headquarter, is alleged to have joined hands with cattle smugglers. In return, he was alleged to be receiving huge money as bribe.
"Several cattle smugglers, who live in the areas that fall under his jurisdiction, give him money for each truckload of the cattle," police sources alleged.
Though some vehicles, which had crossed his area with his alleged permission, were later seized in the jurisdictions of other SHOs, no senior police officer had so far bothered to ask him why cattle smuggling had picked up in his area.
Before his posting in the headquarter area by the ex-SSP, Jammu, he was the SHO of a peripheral police station. He has also served as SHO of an important police station here.
A police cop of Udhampur, who was his 'karyakhas', was alleged to be helping the cattle smugglers to cross police nakas during night. "Even the 'flying squad' vehicle is not allowed by the SHO to carry out patrolling of the route that the smugglers adopt on a particular night," sources alleged.
"The smugglers collect milch animals from villages that fall under the jurisdiction of the SHO and then load them in vehicles for their transportation to Kashmir," sources said.
The SHO was also alleged to be promoting the illicit liquor trade in his area. |
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