CHANDIGARH: The directorate of enforcement (ED) has sought details from the Punjab vigilance bureau pertaining to the corruption case registered against absconding Assistant Inspector General(AIG) Raj Jit Singh who was dismissed from service on April 17 for his alleged involvement in the drug racket, extortion and anti-national activities.
The ED has also requested the vigilance bureau to share dismissed AIG’s bank details and three reports submitted by the 3-member special investigation team(SIT) headed by former DGP Siddharth Chattopadhyaya to the Punjab and Haryana high court in 2018. The high court had on March 28 opened three out of the four sealed cover reports submitted by the SIT and had asked the Punjab government to take further required action on these reports.
The Punjab vigilance bureau had on April 20 registered a case under The Prevention of Corruption Act against the dismissed AIG for allegedly owning assets more than his known sources of income. The FIR was registered based on the SIT reports pointing out Raj Jit’s close connection with jailed Inspector Inderjit Singh who was also dismissed from service earlier for his involvement in drug racket.
Raj Jit, who was posted as AIG headquarters(NRI) at state police headquarters in Chandigarh, is on the run since April 17 when chief minister Bhagwant Mann ordered his dismissal from service and registration of cases against him as per law to carry out further detailed investigation.
Thereafter, the anti-drug special task force(STF) had not only nominated the dismissed AIG in the already registered FIR against dismissed ORP (own rank promotion) Inspector Inderjit Singh in June 2017 at Mohali but had also issued a look out circular(LOC) against him to check him from fleeing abroad. Interestingly, the dismissed AIG is still out of the reach of the Punjab police and has not even approached the court for the anticipatory bail in these 43 days.
