Punjab: 14 booked for robbing contractor at gunpoint in January

PATIALA: Police have booked 14 persons, including the one who posed himself as a cop, for allegedly kidnapping a contractor at a gunpoint and robbing him.


Though the incident took place in January, police said that the case was registered after an investigation as the complainant lodged the case with Punjab police department, Chandigarh, from where the inquiry.

The complainant, identified as Vikram Dalal of Hisar in Haryana, is an engineer and is involved in construction of highways. He claimed that the accused had robbed him of Rs 10 lakh and some gold ornaments.

He said that one of the accused identified as Fakir Chand posed himself as cop and threatened him to get him booked in false cases. He alleged that the the accused forcibly got signed three blank stamp papers and some blank cheques and later took his ATM card from which they had withdrawn around Rs 2 lakh. He told the police that some of the accused were known to him and had called him for some dealing at Zirakpur-Banur Road, where he was kidnapped by the accused.

The police have identified the accused as Veena Rani and her son Abhi, residents of Anand Colony in Samana; Fakir Chand of Patiala city, Sorad Badwar and Gagandeep Badwar of Devigarh; Avtar Singh of Ghuman Nagar; Maninderjeet Singh of Sant Nagar; Satpal Singh of Sangrur; Sachin Goyal and Ashok Kumar of Samana Narainder Singh of Tripuri area in Patiala and three unidentified persons.

The case has been registered against the accused under Sections 342 (punishment for wrongful confinement), 364 (kidnapping or abducting in order to murder), 365 (kidnapping or abducting with intent secretly and wrongfully to confine person), 384 (punishment for extortion), 420 (cheating and dishonestly inducing delivery of property), 465 (punishment for forgery), 468 (forgery for purpose of cheating), 471 (using as genuine a forged document or electronic record) and 120B (punishment of criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code (IPC) and Section 25 of the Arms Act at Banur police station.