After year-long probe, cop booked for 5L job fraud

Ludhiana: Focal Point police have booked a senior constable and his accomplice for duping a man from Gobindgarh village of Rs 5 lakh while promising to get his son a job of a constable in Punjab Police. The FIR has been lodged after a year-long inquiry.The accused has been identified as Ram Gopal, senior constable in Punjab Police, and Karamjeet Singh from Bilaspur. Karamjeet is a distant relative of the complainant — Jarnail Singh (66), who retired as a clerk from the Punjab Agricultural University (PAU).

Jarnail said Karamjeet visited him one day in 2016 and said that his friend Ram Gopal is in Punjab Police who can arrange his son Shanipreet Singh a job in the police, for which he would take Rs 5 lakh.“My son was unemployed and therefore we agreed to pay him the money. Ram Gopal asked him to apply for the job and also appear in the exam. Shanipreet appeared in the exam and also went for the physical test. Thereafter, the accused took Rs 5 lakh from them and showed a forged document in which Shanipreet’s name was there among the selected candidates. Once he took the money, the accused started ignoring him,” Jarnail added.Later, Jarnail found out that Shanipreet’s name wasn’t there in the list of selected candidates. He asked for the money back.“From 2016 till 2022, the accused kept saying that they would return the money, but they did not. At last, I filed a complaint with the police on May 23, 2022 and an inquiry was marked. Meanwhile, we also found that the cop was booked in a similar fraud by Mohali police for duping another aspirant,” the complainant said.ASI Dalbir Singh, investigating officer from Focal Point police station, said after a probe, the police lodged an FIR against constable Ram Gopal and Karamjeet Singh under Sections 420 (cheating) and 120-B (Criminal conspiracy) of the Indian Penal Code.Shanipreet at present is working on a clerical post at PAU on a contractual basis.