Police
tighten noose on Deols
President of NRI Sabha,
two NRI sons from Canada
allegedly involved in hawala racket.
Ludhiana, March 16, 2005
Amrita Chaudhry
Ludhiana News Line
A POLICE party headed by Station House
Officer (SHO) Dakha Prem Singh and SHO Sudhar Shavinder
Singh swooped down on the properties owned by local
president of NRI Sabha Pritam Singh Deol and his two
sons Rajpreet Singh Deol alias Raja Deol and Davinder
Deol.
The team was accompanied by about 10 armed policemen,
and the entire raid was videographed. The police raided
the residence of the Deols and also their TELCO farm
on GT road near Mullanpur. Till the filling of this
report, the raid was going on.
Police officials say that they are searching for
the trio, who have to present themselves in the court
on March 17. They may then be arrested for inquiry
into the fresh cases, say police. A red alert on all
international airports has been sounded for the trio,
highlight officials.
In the past two days, two news First Information
Reports (FIRs) of fraud have been registered against
the Deols who are allegedly involved in Hawala transactions.
Investigations are on against them for allegedly having
committed fraud worth crores of rupees.
Among the latest FIRs, one Kewal Singh, a resident
of village Bango, had registered a complaint that
one of his relatives living in Brahamton, Canada,
sent him Rs 2 lakh. Kewal complained that of this,
the Deols paid him only Rs 60,000, and that he did
not know about what they had done with the rest of
the money. The complaint was registered at Sudhar.
Another complaint against the Deols was lodged at
Mandi Gobindarh by one Ranjit Singh Grewal of village
Dadheri. Grewal complained to the police that his
son had sent him Rs 12 lakh, out which he received
only Rs 1 lakh. Grewal added that the Deols refused
to pay him the rest of the money. With these two new
complaints, the number of cases of fraud against the
Deols has gone up to five. The first complaint against
them had been lodged in August 2004. After initial
inquiry, the court granted Raja Deol bail. Sources
say that he has been frequently flying to Canada and
back since then.
