CM Mann dismissed PPS Rajjit Singh for his involvement in drug trade
Chandigarh: CM Bhagwant Mann has issued a statement following the dismissal of PPS Rajjit Singh for his involvement in the drug case. He said that no one involved in drug trafficking will be spared. The statement came in the wake of the sealed envelope reports being assessed. Rajjit Singh was named in the drug trafficking case and has been dismissed from his position. The money laundering proceeds are also being assessed and the Vigilance Department has been mobilized on the matter. Notably, the Punjab and Haryana high court had years back ordered the setting up of the SIT led by DGP Sidhharth Chattopadhyay to probe the role of Raj Jit Singh in the drug trafficking case and had ordered dismissal of inspector Inderjit in the case.
The SIT was formed after Raj Jit Singh moved the high court seeking its directions to hand over the case to other than special task force chief HS Sidhu, claiming that he had strong apprehensions that he would be falsely implicated by Sidhu.
In May, 2018, Chattopadhyay submitted the report of the probe in relation to the alleged involvement of Raj Jit Singh in a drug trafficking case to the HC. As per information, at that time cabinet ministers, including Tript Rajinder Bajwa, Sukhjinder Randhawa and Navjot Sidhu, strongly advocated immediate acting against the SSP citing that his continuation has not gone down well with the seriousness of the Congress government to tackle drug menace.
“Why have we made a police officer such a big liability. Whenever any drug case comes up, the people and the media question government’s compulsion behind continuing him as SSP. If he is clean, let him come clean from the court but for now, we must act,” said a cabinet minister.
Raj jit’s case also became the base of recent fight between top-brass of Punjab Police when Chattopadhyaya claimed in the court on April 6 that while probing Rajjit’s role, he has got “serious pointers” about involvement of DGP Punjab and DGP Intelligence.