Former IPS Navdeep Singh, who had served as Director General of Police in Rajasthan, has been arrested for protesting and interfering when JDA officials were removing encroachment. A part of Rajputana Hospital – owned by Navdeep Singh – was also said to be an illegal construction which was removed by JDA. Singh came out in protest and was arrested.
JDA is set to remove encroachment from Jharkhand Turn to 200 feet road. There are around 270 illegal construction on the way. Construction on Singh's house was also among these.
JDA commissioner Anandhi said that the action is as per law.
“We are removing all encroachment on this 2.5 km stretch. We target to complete this by today,” she said.
Navdeep Singh has a history of creating ruckus
This is not for the first time Navdeep has embroiled in any controversy. He has a history of such ‘encounters' with police in cases related to land. In 2022, Navdeep Singh was arrested when he gate crashed home of his brother-in-law in a land dispute. His brother-in-law filed FIR against him and later he was arrested. That was the first time when a former DGP was arrested.
Later, in February 2023, Navdeep Singh along with his wife Param Navdeep was booked under SC/ST act when he allegedly threatens some women and men working in a farm and hurled casteist remarks on them.
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