Police arrested NRI for false documents to get Canadian citizenship
Eighteen years after the murder of former MLA Nachhattar Singh Gill,
the father of newly-appointed Punjab DGP P S Gill, the police on Wednesday arrested
(NRI) one of the seven accused in the case.

Moga, Punjab, Aug. 20, 2009
Surinder Singh

NRI Jagdev Singh, a Canadian Citizen returned back to Moga, Punjab, India after 17 years and arrested by police few days ago for submitting false documents to procure police clearance certificate to get Canadian citizenship. He was granted bail by the court.

Today, again, the police arrested him by getting production warrants. The police registered one more case for forgery and cheating under section 467 IPC. He was also produced in the court for remand.

The court refused the police remand and gave judicial remand for two weeks. According to the local media:

• NRI Jagdev Singh son of Joginder Singh, was declared proclaimed in 1992
• He left India with fake passport and possibility of his involvement in the murder of Nachattar Singh Gill ( former MLA) in 1991

Nachattar Singh Gill was a father of newly-appointed Punjab DGP P S Gill. After the murder of Nachattar Singh Gill, six persons were named in the FIR:

• Three were killed in police encounter
• An FIR under Sections 302, 307, 120-B and 34, IPC, Sections 25, 54 and 59, Arms Act, and Sections 5 and 6, TADA Act, was registered against Jagdev’s mother Pritam Kaur, brother Hardev Singh, sister Paramjit Kaur and three others.
• Joginder Singh was allegedly murdered and his family members were arrested by the police.
• The police had also included Jagdev's name in the case while producing challan in court.
• NRI Jagdev's mother Pritam Kaur, sister Paramjit Kaur and brother Hardev were acquitted by the Supreme Court in 1999
• When his family members had been acquitted of murder, Jagdev came to India in 2003 and applied for police clearance certificate for Canadian citizenship.
• In January, 2004, the police gave him the certificate and he went to Canada and got the citizenship there. Now, he holds a Canadian passport.
• In 2008, he came to India to clear pending case against him and surrendered in a court.On the bases of Supreme Court judgement, Amarjot Kaur Bhatti, additional Sessions Judge granted him bail allowing him to go to Canada with the condition to appear in her court on every date.

Paramdeep Singh Gill, a 1974 batch IPS Officer took over as new Director General of Police of Punjab when Mr. K.K. Attri retired on June 30, 2009. Mr. Gill emphasized upon officers to be accessible to the member of the public and to be responsive to the grievances of the people at large. Community Policing should be a tool to bridge the perceptional divide between the police and the public. He pointed out that Punjab has witnessed high rate of Urbanization in recent years and hence there was a need to come up with effective urban policing strategy.

Paramdeep Singh Gill's elder brother, R S Gill, is Punjab Police Academy Director and DGP-rank officer. R S Gill is a 1973-batch Punjab cadre IPS and P S Gill is a 1974 officer of the J&K cadre.

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On Our Mind: Big Questions Arise:

• How did NRI Jagdev Singh involve in murder of former MLA Nachattar Singh Gill in October 1991?
• How he get away with fake passports/ fake documents to get Canadian citizenship?
• How Canadian Govt. will react for Canadian Passport Holder?

Eighteen years after the murder of former MLA Nachhattar Singh Gill, the father of newly-appointed Punjab DGP P S Gill, the police on Wednesday arrested (NRI) one of the seven accused in the case.