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Crook steals medals
The cheat took the bravery medals, claiming that it was needed for a museum that was coming up in Punjab.
But she lost her proud possession to a crook. Posing as an officer of the Punjab Sainik Welfare Board officer to Swaran Singh and half-a-dozen more families, the cheat took the medals, claiming that these were needed for a museum that was coming up in the state soon.
"We thought that the medals when displayed in the museum would be an honour bestowed on our family. He was too, convincing and hence, we did not suspect him to be a crook. So, we happily handed over the medals to him," says Darshan Singh, son of Havildar Munsha Singh from the village.
Darshan Singh could not hide his tears, while narrating that they learnt about fraud, when they contacted the Sainik Welfare Board a month later to get a letter of confirmation stating that they had surrendered the medals for the museum.
A Sainik Welfare Board officer told the families that they had sent no such representative to their village to collect the medals.
After the rich haul of medals from the village, the person disappeared without a trace. Only two families - that of Subedar Arjun Singh and Havildar Pyara Singh - in the village were left with a couple of medals, which they had refused to part.
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