Ludhiana, August 19, 2004
Express News Service
NRI Express
HIGH Drama was witnessed in the
district courts complex here today when Rajpreet
Deol was brought to the court by the police for
producing him before the magistrate.
Deol, son of the NRI Sabha president
Pritam Singh Deol, had been arrested by the Mullanpur
police yesterday under the charges of forgery running
into crores of rupees.
As Rajpreet Deol was brought to the court by the
police at about 3 pm, a horde of photographers of
various newspapers tried to click his photographs,
but the police immediately took him inside the court
room. While the court proceedings were going on,
the photographers kept waiting for Deol to be taken
out of the court room.
After some time as police brought
him out of the court of Judial Magistrate Ist Class
(JMIC) Anshul Berry, the photographers again tried
to click his pictures. But this time also they could
not succeed as the supporters of Deol had brought
along an umbrella and they covered Deol by opening
this umbrella.
As photographers chased Deol and
his supporters, Deol’s supporters started hurling
abuses on them. Deol was brought to the court complex
in a black Scorpio car, which was not bearing a
registration number.
As soon as he came out of the complex,
the same Scorpio car was ready and Deol was hurriedly
pushed in the car.
Probably annoyed by the photographers
the supporters of Deol, who were in another vehicle,
tried to hit them with their car while reversing
it. Luckily no one was injured.
Mullanpur Police had registered
an FIR against two sons of Pritam Singh Deol, president
of the NRI Sabha under charges of forgery worth
crores. One of his sons Rajpreet Deol had been arrested
by the police from Mullanpur while his brother Davinder
Pal Deol is still absconding.
As per the allegations Deol brothers
were having an office in Canada at Rockhill road
located in Malton on Rockhill road in the name of
Deol Foreign Exchange and people used to give money
to them for sending the same to their relatives
in India. However, the money worth crores of rupees
never reached the families of NRIs in India.
Investigation on
JMIC Anshul Berry today sent Rajpreet Deol to the
police custody for one day. The police had urged
the court for a three day police remand of Deol
saying that they had to recover the CD which had
the details of all the transactions from him and
this CD was lying at his residence in in Dhanbad
district of Bihar. But court allowed only one day
polic
