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CHANDIGARH: The problems for the Channi family do not seem to end. The Punjab Police on Monday registered a case against former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh alias Honey and his associate Kudratdeep Singh for carrying out illegal mining in the area of Malikpur mining site in SBS Nagar district in year 2017 after receiving a letter from the Enforcement Directorate. Honey had been arrested by the ED earlier and was out on bail.
After registering the case, the police have also sent notice to Honey to join the investigations in this case, while, Kudratdeep, who is in Kapurthala Jail, will be brought on production warrant on Tuesday. The development came two months after the Enforcement Directorate in its letter (dated May 9, 2022) to the SSP SBS Nagar had shared information regarding 73 weightment slips (dated 10.11.2017) besides other details of the output of sand more than reported to the mining department from illegal mining at Malikpur sand mining site recovered during the course of searches.
Pertinently, in the end of the year 2021, the Directorate of Enforcement Jalandhar conducted searches at the premises of Bhupinder and Kudratdeep. The ED had then recovered various indiscriminating documents, digital devices, and cash to the tune of Rs 9.97 crores relatable to the proceeds of crime generated by way of illegal sand mining.
CHANDIGARH: The problems for the Channi family do not seem to end. The Punjab Police on Monday registered a case against former Punjab Chief Minister Charanjit Singh Channi’s nephew Bhupinder Singh alias Honey and his associate Kudratdeep Singh for carrying out illegal mining in the area of Malikpur mining site in SBS Nagar district in year 2017 after receiving a letter from the Enforcement Directorate. Honey had been arrested by the ED earlier and was out on bail.
After registering the case, the police have also sent notice to Honey to join the investigations in this case, while, Kudratdeep, who is in Kapurthala Jail, will be brought on production warrant on Tuesday. The development came two months after the Enforcement Directorate in its letter (dated May 9, 2022) to the SSP SBS Nagar had shared information regarding 73 weightment slips (dated 10.11.2017) besides other details of the output of sand more than reported to the mining department from illegal mining at Malikpur sand mining site recovered during the course of searches.
Pertinently, in the end of the year 2021, the Directorate of Enforcement Jalandhar conducted searches at
the premises of Bhupinder and Kudratdeep. The ED had then recovered various indiscriminating documents, digital devices, and cash to the tune of Rs 9.97 crores relatable to the proceeds of crime generated by way of illegal sand mining.
