Chandigarh:
A senior police officer of Punjab has been sacked for facilitating the recording of an interview with gangster Lawrence Bishnoi by a non-public tv channel whereas he was within the custody of the CIA (Crime Investigation Company) in Kharar.
The motion got here after a probe by a Particular Investigation Crew. The state police chief mentioned Gursher Singh Sandhu has “severely dented the picture of the division “together with his misconduct, negligence and dereliction of responsibility.
Whereas reviewing the matter, the state authorities, too, got here to the identical conclusion and issued an order for his dismissal.
Bishnoi’s interviews had been carried out whereas he was in police custody. Considered one of these was on the CIA workers premises Kharar, and was aired by a non-public information channel in March 2023.
The dismissal orders, which cited Article 311 of the Structure, made particular point out of his uncooperative perspective.
“It isn’t fairly practicable to carry an inquiry into the chargesheet issued to Gursher Singh Sandhu, PPS (below suspension), in view of the non-cooperative perspective of the officer,” the order learn.
It cited how the officer refused to just accept a duplicate of the chargesheet towards him and the way it needed to be affixed to his doorstep”.
Lawrence Bishnoi, arrested in 2014, has made the rounds of assorted jails of the nation together with Delhi’s Tihar jail. At present he’s in Sabarmati’s Central Jail.
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