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| Six-day Police remand for tainted cops, houses raided | | | Early Times Report
Jammu, Sept 28: While questioning of the accused in Amandeep Singh murder’s evidence tampering case continued for the day and raids were conducted at the premises of arrested cops, the Special Investigation Team (SIT) probing the case obtained six-day Police remand for former SSP Manohar Singh and suspended Inspector Sultan Mirza and Sub Inspector Satnam Singh.
Manohar, sources said, is the first inmate in the new lockup of newly constructed up Gandhi Nagar Police Station while Sultan Mirza has been lodged in the old lockup of the Police Station where he was Station House Officer until last week. Satnam Singh and Sultan are lodged in the same room.
After daylong of questioning and raids at their premises, the arrested Police officials former SSP Manohar Singh, Inspector Sultan Mirza and Sub Inspector Satnam Singh were produced before the Duty Magistrate, Forest Magistrate Jammu Yahya Firdous in Bathindi area at around 5 PM. On presentation of SIT the Magistrate granted six-day Police custody for the accused.
The trio was taken to the residence of Duty Magistrate in tight security arrangements. While suspended SSP Manohar Singh shared seat with the SIT chief Mubashir Latiefi in an Ambassador Car, two other officials Sultan Mirza and Satnam Singh were taken in Toyota Qualis jeeps. A number of vehicles mostly bearing Punjab number made the cavalcade to the Duty Magistrate’s residence.
Sources said that suspended SSP made a strong request before the Magistrate for ordering the SIT to shift him to the Hospital as he complained that he was not feeling well. However, the Magistrate was informed by the SIT that a medical checkup had been taken on all three cops and Manohar Singh was reported with only a small complaint of high blood pressure which was manageable without shifting him to the hospital. The Magistrate is learnt to have refused to refer any of the cops to the hospital and is reported to have said that if any complicacy is reported in the subsequent medical checkups it can be then reviewed. There was, however, no official confirmation on what transpired.
It may be mentioned here that on the September 26, 2009 the SIT under the supervision of DIG Jammu-Kathua Range Farooq Khan produced the suspended SP South Mumtaz Ahmed and one lady Selection Grade constable and one lady constable before Excise Magistrate Jammu Mr. Sunit Gupta for recording the statement of all three police officials u/s 164-A CrPC in the case of tempering evidence in the murder case of Amandeep Singh. The statements u/s 164-A CrPC recorded by the prosecution in the cases of murder, rape, dicatoy and other serious offences so that the witnesses should not turn hostile during the trial of the case.
Meanwhile, earlier in the day simultaneous raids were conducted at the residences of Manohar Singh in Rehari, Sultan Mirza at Gulshan Ground quarters and Satnam Singh in Miran Sahib area.
Deputy Superintendent of Police Mamta Sharma led a huge posse of cops, including around ten lady cops, at the residence of Manohar Singh in Reahi area. Sources said that family members of former SSP Manohar Singh insisted on physical check of some lady constables before allowing them to enter their house.
While no unusually high amount of cash is reported to have recovered from residence of Manohar Singh but the raiding team seized many documents including property details, bank statements and investment papers. Sources said that in the middle of raids, the raiding party sought assistance of an official of the Punjab National Bank to help them understand some bank documents. DySP Mamta Sharma is reported to have downloaded some data from computers of Manohar Singh.
Raids were also conducted at the residences of Sultan Mirza and Satnam Singh. Sources said that no cash or major investment records were found from their residences.
In a related development, the personal security officials attached with Manohar Singh
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