Shimla: District and Session Judge, Solan – CB Barowalia, late on Monday evening, granted bail to arrested senior police officer BS Thind in the criminal intimidation and extortion case registered with Parwanoo police.
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Earlier, Thind after being discharged from IGMC hospital Shimla was brought to Solan under transit remand and produced before the judge at about 6.30 p.m.
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Treating doctors in the afternoon had declared the suspended police officer fit to be produced before the courts.
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Thind was arrested on Saturday afternoon by the Parwanoo police near the district courts, where he had come to attend a hearing in a case about misappropriation of public funds when he headed a public sector undertaking in the mid 1980’s.
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After being arrested, Thind had complained of chest pain and was taken to hospital where several tests were run on him and he was kept under observation.
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The case made out against the suspended senior police officer is based on a complaint by Chandigarh based businessman Ashok Mittal, who has alleged that illegal money was demanded from him for getting a rented commercial property he owned at Parwanoo vacated.
As evidence, Mittal had submitted a telephone conversation recording on a CD. Based on the evidence collected a case was registered on June 15, 2008.Â
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