Narhi police station's Kotwal Pannelal arrested in Ballia extortion case, 19 arrested so far

Finally, Pannalal, the inspector of Narhi police station in Ballia, Uttar Pradesh had to surrender. The Azamgarh SOG team had reached his house to arrest him. Seeing himself surrounded, Inspector Pannalal raised his hands. According to DIG Vaibhav Krishna, the inspector can also be taken to PCR for interrogation.

Narhi Inspector Pannelal arrested

Inspector Pannalal, who was absconding since the raid by ADG-DIG in Narhi police station of Ballia, surrendered in Gorakhpur on Sunday night. On the orders of ADG, a case was registered against the inspector in his own police station Narhi. At that time, the team of ADG DIG had arrested two policemen and 16 brokers. Now after the arrest of the inspector, a total of 19 people have been arrested in this case. According to DIG Vaibhav Krishna, the inspector will be produced in court today and sent to jail.

If required, he will be taken on police custody remand later and further investigation will be done in this case. At present, the investigation team is considering Inspector Pannalal as the head of the extortion case. However, the police also has some inputs which are enough to tell that many big people had their back on Inspector Pannalal and he was also getting a good share in the money earned from this extortion. According to DIG Vaibhav Krishna, as soon as the extortion case was revealed during the raid, Inspector Pannalal was suspended and a case was registered against him.

Inspector Pannelal is a resident of Gorakhpur

Since the inspector had fled from the spot, a team of Azamgarh SOG was sent to his house in Bharsi village of Gola police station area of ​​Gorakhpur to arrest him. On getting the news of his encirclement, the accused inspector surrendered by raising his hands in front of SOG. According to Ballia Police, Inspector Pannalal had a lot of influence in the department. He was posted in Narhi police station for two years. During this time, many COs and SPs changed. Inspectors of many police stations were also changed, but no one tried to harass Inspector Pannalal.

He was made a sub-inspector in 2012

Inspector Panne Lal, originally from Bharsi village in Gola police station area of ​​Gorakhpur, became a sub-inspector in the year 2012 batch and got promoted to Inspector in just five years of service. He was also posted in many other police stations, but in August 2022, he got the charge of Narhi police station. Since then, he remained posted in this police station till his suspension. According to DIG Vaibhav Krishna, the game of extortion was going on in Narhi police station for a long time.

CO-SP were caught

He and DIG Varanasi zone got information about this. After this, a raid was conducted at Narhi police station in a confidential manner. After the information was found to be correct, two policemen were caught red handed on the spot. At the same time, 16 brokers who used to extort money from truck drivers by beating them with the help of these policemen were arrested. In this case, on the recommendation of DIG-ADG, the state government removed the then SP DR Verma and CO of Ballia.