Pherurai and kin do a RK Sharma

<div class="section1"><div class="Normal">LUDHIANA: While it is one inspector general of police, Ravi Kant Sharma, who is on the run in Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, it is the whole khandaan (family) of former Ferozepur senior superintendent of police Gurcharan Singh Pherurai in the job-for cash scam. <br />Pherurai went missing after the Vigilance Bureau registered a case against him for bribing former Punjab Public Service Commission (PPSC) chairman Ravinder Pal Singh Sidhu for the selection of his daughter and son.<br />The Jagraon police revealed to <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">The Times of India</span> that Pherurai’s three sisters, their husbands and children, families of three brothers, niece, her family, maternal and paternal uncles and aunts, and his in-laws, have locked their houses and left.<br />The police has conducted raids in Rasulpur, Gholiakalan, Jalalabad, Hakima, Pherurai, Moga city, Ludhiana and many other places.<br />“If we get lucky during a raid, we find the house open, and a sole woman or an extremely old man sitting at home, who play ignorant.But, mostly we are greeted by locks,� said deputy superintendent of police (Raikot) Harjit Singh Brar, who is investigating the case. It has been learnt from sources that Pherurai has another additional 45 acres of land in Ropar, besides the 100 acres revealed earlier by the police.<br />The police has also picked up five commission agents, one of whom is learnt to have Rs 18 lakh in his bank account. The money supposedly belongs to Pherurai.<br />The police has also unearthed 11 arms licenses made in the names of the kith and kin of Pherurai, and the address given as C/o SSP, Ferozepur.<br />This, in addition to the fake currency racket exposed earlier, points to Pherurai’s involvement in several illegal practices.<br />An MLA of Ferozepur region, on condition of anonymity, told <span style="" font-style:="" italic="">The Times of India</span> that during his twoyear tenure as SSP (Ferozepur), Pherurai had accumulated several crores rupees. He alleged: “Pherurai took Rs 1.5 lakh from each police station, each month. Each SHO was changed after three to four months, and the new SHO would once again pay.�<br />Inside sources revealed that the fake currency, which Pherurai had handed over to Ravinder Pal Singh Sidhu was not part of the amount that he had had recovered from a smuggler. The fake currency worth Rs 2 crore was actually printed by the accused on Pherurai’s orders. It is learnt that the former SSP had promised to get the accused off the hook if he printed fake notes. </div> </div>