1KG 680 GRAMS charas being pumped into Punjab from HP: Jalandhar Commissionerate Police busts interstate drug smuggling gang
Jalandhar Commissionerate Police busts interstate drug smuggling gang
Recovers 1KG 680 GRAMS charas being pumped into Punjab from HP
Jalandhar, May 20-
Tightening the noose around drug peddling in the district, the Jalandhar Commissionerate Police on Thursday busted an interstate gang involved in smuggling of Charas by recovering 1 KG 680 GRAMS (commercial quantity) of drug from them.
Divulging the details, the Commissioner of Police Gurpreet Singh Bhullar said that on a tip off the CIA staff Jalandhar I had organised a special checking at Dairy Chowk in Model Town. He said that the team spotted a white swift PB 08 ES 4629 but after noticing the Police party the driver of the car tried to turn the car. However, Mr Bhullar said that swiftly swinging into action the Police party nabbed three youth sitting the car identified as Varun Kumar, Mohit Sharma and Simranjeet Singh Randhawa.
The Commissioner of Police said that sensing that some suspicious thing was in the car the Police party called on the Assistant Commissioner of Police Model Town Mr Harinder Singh Gill on the spot and conducted the checking of the car. He said that during the checking the Police recovered 900 gram of charas from
Varun Kumar, 700 gram of charas from Mohit Sharma alias Pandit and 80 grams of charas from Simranjeet Singh Randhawa. Mr Bhullar said that on investigation the accused revealed that they used to bring the drug from Himachal Pradesh and sell it at high rates adding that Police immediately arrested all the culprits and registered a FIR under section 20/61/85 of NDPS Act at Police Division Number 6.
The Commissioner of Police said that the trio used to smuggle the drug into state from Himachal Pradesh and then used to sell them on exorbitant rates (more than double) in the state. He said that Simranjeet Singh Randhawa was earlier arrested by Police in a case registered on August 8,2017 under section 307, 160, 148, 149 and 212 of IPC and 25, 27 of Arms Act registered at Police Division number 7 and was out on bail since 2018. Mr Bhullar said that forward and backward linkages of the interstate gang were under scanner and soon more people would be behind the bars.
Multi-crore Ponzi scheme racket unearthed in Ropar; five held with Rs 8.2 lakhs
— Be aware of such online schemes and don’t invest without proper verification of any scheme, urges DGP Dinkar Gupta
— People across India invested crores of rupees in fraudulent Espian Global online investment platform, reveals investigations
CHANDIGARH/RUPNAGAR, May 20:
The Rupnagar Police on Thursday, unearthed a multi-crore Ponzi scheme investment racket being operated via an online platform, under the name of Espian Global, with the arrest of five persons. Espian Global— a proxy of an online gaming website ESPN GLOBAL, offers weekly four-fold high returns of the money invested besides foreign trips to lure innocent people.
The arrested persons have been identified as Ikshit, a resident of Sirsa in Haryana, Ankit of Bhiwani Haryana, Rakesh Kumar of Zirakpur in SAS Nagar, Gurpreet Singh and Sachinpreet Sindhu, both residents of Mohali in SAS Nagar. The Police have also recovered Rs 8.2 lakhs from their possession.
Director General of Police (DGP) Punjab Dinkar Gupta said that following a complaint from one such investor, who claimed to have invested around Rs 16 lakhs and got nothing in return, Senior Superintendent of Police (SSP) Rupnagar Akhil Chaudhary directed Superintendent of Police (SP Headquarters) Ankur Gupta to immediately register the FIR and start investigations into the case.
During the investigations, DGP Dinkar Gupta said that the Police have managed to trace the bank accounts based in Mumbai, in which cash transfers were made and during scrutiny of statements of these accounts it has been found that the people across India have made investments amounting in crores on this platform.
The DGP also appealed to the people to be aware of such online schemes and don’t invest without proper verification of any scheme and agents dealing with such schemes.
*Modus Operandi*
SSP Rupnagar Akhil Chaudhary, further briefing about how the company was luring investors, said that the company offers three investment slots including Rs 4.82 lakhs, Rs 7 lakhs and Rs 19.40 lakhs and when anyone invests in one of the slots, Electronic Transaction Purchase (EPT) was generated and indian currency is converted into EPTs and corresponding dollars, based on which weekly returns are promised. One EPT equals to one Dollar.
To lure investors to invest in the company, fraudsters have also organised special Seminars, said SSP Chaudhary adding that it is a hierarchical system in which there are 13 ranks and as one person gets more customers to invest in such schemes, his rank improves in this system.
Meanwhile, the FIR no 76 dated May 14, 2021 has been registered under sections 406 and 420 of the Indian Penal Code (IPC), sections 4, 5 and 6 of the Prize Chit and Money Circulation (Banning ) Act and section 76 of the Chit Fund Act at Morinda City Police Station.
