Inspector Amanjot takes VRS, cites personal reasons
Amanjot Singh arrested notorious gangsters, solved blind murders and cracked sensational robberies. He was given numerous appreciation and commendation certificates.
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Most of the service of Inspector Amanjot was with the Crime Branch, Special Cell, Operations Cell, which are independent investigation agencies primarily tasked to crack organised crimes A CHANDIGARH Police Inspector, Amanjot Singh, has taken voluntary retirement after serving for 26 years. He had joined the Chandigarh Police as an ASI in 1997.
Sources said Amanjot Singh had submitted the application for VRS last week to SSP (UT) Kanwardeep Kaur, who forwarded it to IG Raj Kumar Singh. IG Singh accepted the application on Friday.
A police officer said, “Amanjot Singh cited personal reasons behind his decision to take VRS. He stated his two children are abroad. He conveyed to senior officers that he wants to focus on them. Today orders were issued accepting his VRS.”
He arrested notorious gangsters, solved blind murders and cracked sensational robberies. He was given numerous appreciation and commendation certificates.
Considered to be a tough policeman, he was involved in many controversies as well. In December 2022, criminal charges were framed against him for allegedly obstructing a judge from discharging his judicial function, disobeying the order of judicial officer, obstructing public servant in discharge of public functions. The trial has been going on in the court of Chief Judicial Magistrate (CJM).
Most of the service of Inspector Amanjot was with the Crime Branch, Special Cell, Operations Cell, which are independent investigation agencies primarily tasked to crack organised crimes.
The gangsters arrested and interrogated by him included Lawrence Bishnoi, Sampat Nehra, Jaswinder Singh Rocky, who was later killed in a gangwar near Parwanoo, and gangster Jaipal Singh Bhullar, who was shot dead in Kolkata. Maximum of the cases investigated by him ended up in conviction.
Currently, he was posted as Sarangpur SHO.
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