THE JHARKHAND STORY NETWORK
Daltonganj, July 26: A sister in Punjab, doctor by profession, had no clue of her two brothers being headlong plunged into a poppy husk shipment from Chatra via Palamu in Jharkhand, as she only knew her brothers Harmeet and Satbeer were on tour to Jharkhand’s Palamu, where they have been kidnapped for ransom.
The doctor phoned SP Reeshma Ramesan and narrated how, for the release of her brothers Harmeet and Satbeer, she and her family had digitally paid the ransom money to the tune of rupees 7.50 lakh to an account of one Pintu Yadav in the Axis Bank.
The Punjab sister gave the location of Pipra police station limits, which was not. It was Pipra Tarn.
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Police Discover Cop Involvement and Fake Abduction
Sensing the gravity of the call, SP asked her police to go all out for this piece of information on kidnapping for ransom.
The faster this information unfolded, the more bizarre things started tumbling down.
The shocking unfolding was the involvement of a couple of cops of the Pipra Tarn police station and the son of a chowkidar in the illegal detention (kidnapping for ransom) of Harmeet and Satbeer for which came down 7.50 lakhs from Punjab into the account of Pintu Yadav for the release of Harmeet and Satbeer.
SP Reeshma Ramesan didn’t hush up the involvement of the cops etc in the kidnapping for ransom rather, she told mediapersons that such a black sheep has to be exposed most fiercely. There were more shocks to come.
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Smuggling Nexus Exposed: 3.14 Quintals of Poppy Husk Seized
Harmeet and Satbeer were no innocent brothers of the Punjab lady doctor. They were a habitual shipper of Doda poppy husk and had been to Jharkhand four times before. They used to travel in a Honda City car just to pass off as any opulent person.
Where there is poppy husk, there is enough money. Here too, Palamu police laid legal hands on more than 32 lakhs of rupees in cash.
Harmeet and Satbeer, and two more, all from Ludhiana, along with four locals, were caught and jailed for having 3.14 quintals of poppy husk.
The shipment of narcotics could have gone unnoticed had the four locals not played a fake kidnapping scenario for ransom.
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8 Arrested as Police Bust Interstate Drug Network
Credit goes to the Palamu police team led by the SDPO Lesliganj Manoj Kumar Jha, which under the command of the SP Reeshma Ramesan, worked too hard and professionally to uncover such an interstate network of poppy shipment.
It must have been a terrible shock to the lady government doctor of Punjab, first to lose 7.50 lakhs of rupees and second to find her two brothers were smugglers and not tourists!
As for the Palamu police, it’s all a gratitude to the lady government doctor of Punjab for helping unravel the long-distance smuggling of poppy.
There were made 8 arrests and among the 8 arrested were the two Harmeet and Satbeer also, no longer a victim but a major key player in poppy smuggling.
