NRI Balwinder Sandhu posing as Superintendent of Police (SP) in Punjab, arrested

Jalandhar, Mar 31, 2008
Satish Mehta

North America NRI, Balwinder Singh Sandhu of village Ghurka, near Goraya allegedly impersonating as superintendent of police (SP), used to threat various police officials including SHOs and DSPs to provide him security or face consequences, was arrested today.

SP PS Parmar, addressing a press conference here today said:

• Sandhu used to visit India frequently and pose as a big NRI businessman or an SP.
• He made a call to Phillaur DSP and fax to Punjab DGP, threatening them with dire consequences if he was not be provided enough security
• He had also rang up police control room many time to provide him pilot car and security whenever he visted his village. He also would fix a red beacon over the top of his vehicle, which has been seized.

The police investigated the call and fax, they found Sandhu was behind these all communications. The police recoved ID card, uniform, 100 fake stamps of including DGP Office, SP, SHO and SDM (Phillaur), 10 passports of different persons and two walkie-talkie sets have been recovered along with eight sim cards and two blackberries

The police arrested him under sections 420, 467, 468 and 471 of IPC