In his report submitted to the Punjab and Haryana High Court, a warrant officer has said the Panchkula police illegally detained a person, intimidated the warrant officer and forged the daily diary report (DDR).

In his detailed report, warrant officer Baljinder Singh Teja has said the Panchkula police tried to cover up the illegal detention of Amardeep Thakur.

The HC had appointed Teja as warrant officer after Thakur’s wife, Sanjana, filed a habeas corpus, alleging that her husband was picked up by the Panchkula police and kept in illegal detention.

Subsequently, Teja raided the CIA staff, Panchkula, on October 10. He was accompanied by relatives of Thakur.

“At 3 pm, I knocked at the door of the Detective Staff. A man, who was in civilian clothes, opened the door, and I showed him my identity card. Instead of letting me in, he closed the door with full force. As a result, my right arm got stuck between the steel gate and the wall,” the warrant office has said in his report. “Then I, along with relatives of the detainee, applied full force and pushed the door open. The man inside intimidated me and ran outside. He was later identified as constable Jogpreet Singh.”

Teja has submitted that he found Thakur in the lock up.

Thakur reportedly told the warrant officer that he was arrested from his residence in Sector 20, Panchkula, around 8 am on October 8, and that since then he had been illegally detained by the Panchkula police.

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