Man posing as PO will get 3-year jail sentence
Faridkot, February 14
The Chief Judicial Justice of the Peace has awarded Kirpal Singh a three-year jail time period for posing as a proclaimed offender. A resident of Karanpur in Sriganganagar, Kirpal has a historical past of impersonating culprits in trade for cash.
It’s an uncommon story of fraud and deceit which started in February 2011, when the Faridkot police registered a case towards 14 individuals for the offence of dishonest and forgery in a property transaction.
Throughout proceedings of the case, the court docket got here to know that one of many suspects, Harmanjit Singh, was non-existent. It got here to mild that the precise suspect was Arun Kumar, who was declared as a proclaimed offender within the case.
In February 2016, an individual claiming to be Kumar appeared to give up himself within the 2011 case. Later, the police discovered that the particular person was not Kumar and his actual identify was Kirpal. Throughout questioning, Kirpal revealed that he was awarded 4-year jail time period by the District and Session Decide, Bathinda, for impersonating Jaswinder Singh in a rape and abduction case in August 2012.