Chandigarh, May 18: Gurvinder Singh Samra, on whose complaint the CBI has booked a magistrate and a judge on charges of corruption, today claimed he and his family members were getting death threats and alleged a "nexus" between a section of judicial and police officers. "I am the key witness in the case involving judicial officials...Police can go to any level to settle scores with me," Samra told reporters here.
"Me and my family have continuously been receiving threats," he said.
"As the case will progress, more names of judicial and police officials will figure," Samra said adding he would move the court seeking security for himself and his family members. "Barring Punjab Police, I am ready to accept security from any agency," he said.
He declined to name the judicial and police officers about whose nexus he was alleging.
Claiming he had been "falsely implicated" by Jalandhar police in seven cases since April 3 after he refused to give a bribe of Rs one lakh to a senior police official as had been demanded, Samra said "they (police) can liquidate me any time." Refuting recent charges by Jalandhar police chief Virendra Kumar that he had been indulging in "illegal" activities in his hospital at Kartarpur and "deceiving" gullible patients and others, Samra said Jalandhar police had raided his house in plain clothes.
Refuting charges that he possessed "bogus" degree of medicine, Samra said his registration number was 135/93. "If anybody proved that I had a fake degree I will chop my hands," he said.
A case against Jalandhar district and sessions judge R M Gupta and Chandigarh judicial magistrate (first class) S S Bhardwaj was registered by CBI on May 9 under Prevention of Corruption Act on the basis of a written complaint by Samra.
While Gupta is in judicial custody till May 30, Bhardwaj is on the run. Bureau Report