Baddi, June 4
The Baddi police has arrested an assistant manager of a battery-manufacturing unit for extortion after he was caught red-handed accepting Rs 70,000 from the manager of a packaging unit in Nalagarh today.
Vijender Chandel, an assistant manager in Sukam Power Systems Limited at Baddi, in connivance with Shaukeen Singh, who hails from the Jaswa area of Kangra district and deals in scrap in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) area, had sent a letter to the said unit under the letterhead of an NGO, Manavadhikaar Emergency Helpline Association, on April 16 that the unit was violating various labour laws and action would be taken against it if the laws were not abided by.
Baddi SP Gurdev Chand Sharma said the letter had directed the unit to remove these discrepancies or face action. A case under Section 384 of the IPC has been registered against the two and they have been arrested.
The SP said initial investigations revealed that the labour officer visited the unit after the receipt of the first letter and he enquired about this complaint. Another letter was sent on May 25 as a reminder. Meanwhile, Chandel started calling the unit management to extend the illegal gratification of Rs 3 lakh so that the NGO did not proceeded further in the matter.
It was, however, decided that the unit management would pay Rs 2 lakh per annum to the NGO and it would be payable in three instalments while the first instalment of Rs 70,000 was to be paid today in order to diffuse the issue.
Harassed by the NGO, the unit management approached the police and a trap was laid where they caught Chandel and Shaukeen accepting the said amount.
The Baddi police has arrested an assistant manager of a battery-manufacturing unit for extortion after he was caught red-handed accepting Rs 70,000 from the manager of a packaging unit in Nalagarh today.
Vijender Chandel, an assistant manager in Sukam Power Systems Limited at Baddi, in connivance with Shaukeen Singh, who hails from the Jaswa area of Kangra district and deals in scrap in the Baddi-Barotiwala-Nalagarh (BBN) area, had sent a letter to the said unit under the letterhead of an NGO, Manavadhikaar Emergency Helpline Association, on April 16 that the unit was violating various labour laws and action would be taken against it if the laws were not abided by.
Baddi SP Gurdev Chand Sharma said the letter had directed the unit to remove these discrepancies or face action. A case under Section 384 of the IPC has been registered against the two and they have been arrested.
The SP said initial investigations revealed that the labour officer visited the unit after the receipt of the first letter and he enquired about this complaint. Another letter was sent on May 25 as a reminder. Meanwhile, Chandel started calling the unit management to extend the illegal gratification of Rs 3 lakh so that the NGO did not proceeded further in the matter.
It was, however, decided that the unit management would pay Rs 2 lakh per annum to the NGO and it would be payable in three instalments while the first instalment of Rs 70,000 was to be paid today in order to diffuse the issue.
Harassed by the NGO, the unit management approached the police and a trap was laid where they caught Chandel and Shaukeen accepting the said amount.
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