Ex-Chandigarh cop booked for trying to grab retired DSP’s house

Accused’s Chandigarh Police sub-inspector’s wife also booked for preparing fake general power of attorney and affidavit by forging the deceased DSP’s signature

A former sub-inspector of the UT Police and his wife have been booked for trying to grab a retired DSP’s house that they had been staying in on rent since 2014.

The Chandigarh Police sub-inspector stopped paying the rent of the Sector 41 house after its owner died in 2015. (Getty Images/iStockphoto)

The accused, Nazar Singh, and his wife, Balwinder Kaur, were booked on the complaint of Rupinder Singh, the son of Daljit Singh, who retired as DSP from Chandigarh Police.

Rupinder, a resident of Sector 70, Mohali, told the police that since the death of his father in 2015, he was the owner of the Sector-41 house in question.

The house was allotted to his father by the Chandigarh Housing Board and he had rented it out to Nazar in 2014 for ₹6,000 per month.

However, Nazar stopped paying the rent after his father’s death and always gave excuses whenever asked to pay up.

Rupinder said he had lodged a police complaint in this regard in 2018, but it was dismissed as a civil dispute. As the rent was still not paid, he lodged another complaint in July last year.

He alleged that on March 18, 2020, Nazar’s wife filed a property dispute case in court, using a fake general power of attorney (GPA) and affidavit on his father’s behalf by forging his signature.

Police sent this affidavit for forensic examination and a report in January confirmed that the signature was forged.

Following legal opion, police have now lodged an FIR against the accused under Sections 420, 467, 468, 471 and 120-B of the Indian Penal Code. Before the case was registered, Nazar took voluntary retirement from his police job. Efforts are on to arrest him and his wife, police said.