After the manner in which the action was taken regarding recovery on the UP-Bihar border in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh, five policemen including suspended police station head of Narhi police station Panne Lal, outpost in-charge Rajesh Kumar Prabhakar are absconding. Police have not been able to trace his location yet. The responsibility of investigating this case has been given to Azamgarh ASP Subham Aggarwal, after which he reached Ballia and started the investigation.
After the action in Ballia, five policemen including the police station chief are absconding. It is believed that if the suspended police station incharge does not appear, further action will be taken against him. His room has been sealed which may contain many important evidences. There is also mention of a red diary in which there is a complete account of this game of extortion.
According to the information, on the complaint of DIG PRO Sushil Kumar regarding this matter of recovery of money from trucks in Ballia, a case has been registered against Police Station Head Panne Lal, Outpost Incharge Rajesh Kumar, Prabhakar, Satish Gupta, Hari Dayal, Balram Singh, Deepak Mishra, Vishnu Yadav. Has been recorded.
Five policemen absconding
Of these, Satish Gupta and Hari Dayal have been arrested while other policemen are still absconding. The absconding policemen have also switched off their phones due to which information about them is not available even through surveillance.
Police Station Head Pannelal is a resident of Gorakhpur and the stories of his recovery during posting in his home district were famous. It is believed that he had access to the top in the police department, hence he was given the creamy police station. He was always posted in such police stations where there was more income. He has been getting the police stations of his choice.
Panne Lal’s special policemen were on duty at the check post.
According to the information, everyone’s duty was not assigned at Bharauli police check post. The police station incharge who was close to Pannelal was assigned duty there. These constables and sub-inspectors were always deployed.
Along with this, some selected local people were also employed in this work, who used to stop the trucks under the protection of the police and collect money from them. Even the policemen posted at this post used to go straight to their homes instead of going to the police station and had nothing to do with the police station.
According to Varanasi Zone ADG Piyush Mordia, the police personnel caught in the DIG raid at the check post on the Bihar-UP border have been sent to jail. The rest of the room has been sealed and further investigation is pending.
New policemen deployed in the police station
Now a new posting has been made in Bharauli. Some policemen have joined now and some are about to join. Now new policemen are continuously coming to the police station. During this time, like every day, the complainants are also not reaching the police station and the police mess is also locked.
At the same check post where recovery was made, trucks loaded with various goods kept passing without any hindrance. During this time, the two policemen present there remained busy on their mobiles. He was neither stopping anyone nor interrogating anyone. According to DGP Prashant Kumar, every aspect is being investigated and the absconding policemen are being searched. Soon major action will be taken against the names in the charge sheet.
Recovery of five lakh rupees from trucks every day
Let us tell you that regarding this extortion racket of the police, DIZ Vaibhav Krishna and ADG of Varanasi Range had busted the extortion gang by posing as a truck driver and the involvement of policemen of Narhi police station was found in this case. After this, 16 brokers including two policemen were arrested. The policemen are accused that with the help of private brokers, they used to collect Rs 500 from every truck passing through there. 1000 trucks used to pass through this border of UP-Bihar every night due to which Rs 5 lakh was being collected in a day. In this way, every month the policemen used to earn black money of Rs 1.5 crore.