Controversial SP to be probed in bigamy case

Punjab Police today ordered an inquiry into bigamy allegations against controversial Superintendent of Police Salwinder Singh who is already under a cloud of suspicion in connection with the Pathankot Air base attack.
"A fact-finding inquiry has been instituted by the Director General of Police, Punjab, on the news items regarding the statement of a Tanda-based woman who has levelled allegations of bigamy" against Salwinder Singh, a Punjab Police release said here this evening.
The inquiry will be conducted by senior woman IPS officer Dhanpreet Kaur, who is Senior Superintendent of Police of Hoshiarpur, and she has been asked to submit a report at the earliest.

A woman, resident of Tanda in Hoshiarpur district, has alleged that she was the second wife of Salwinder Singh with the marriage having taken place in private in April 1994.
She has claimed that she had resided with the SP at his various places of postings including Dera Baba Nanak and Amritsar. The marriage was never made public by the SP, she has alleged, adding in September 1999 a son was also born.
The woman has claimed that she had made various complaints to the police in the past but no action was taken on them.

Salwinder Singh is already in news for claiming that he was abducted by the terrorists who attacked Pathankot Air base. He is under a cloud of suspicion in that case and has been questioned by various agencies, including the NIA.

Security agencies have found some discrepancies in Singh's statements and these are being looked into, sources said, adding he was taken to the places he had visited earlier along with his jeweller friend Rajesh Kumar Verma and cook Madan Gopal when they were purportedly abducted.
Singh, who is facing charges of "breach of discipline", was transferred recently as Assistant Commandant of 75th battalion of Punjab Armed Police.