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AAP seeks removal of DGP

With Punjab’s two director generals of police (DGPs) getting named by another DGP for their alleged involvement in a drug…

AAP seeks removal of DGP

Sukhpal Singh Khaira

With Punjab’s two director generals of police (DGPs) getting named by another DGP for their alleged involvement in a drug trafficking case, the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) on Saturday demanded the removal of state DGP Suresh Arora and DGP (Intelligence) Dinkar Gupta.

The leader of Opposition and AAP leader, Sukhpal Singh Khaira said the Chief Minister should remove DGPs Arora and Gupta from their posts as the allegations against them have been made by an officer hand-picked by the High Court to probe drug-related involvement of police officers.

The development follows a special investigation team (SIT) formed by the HC under DGP (human resource development) Siddhartha Chattopadhyaya to look into allegations of Moga’s senior superintendent of police (SSP) Raj Jit Singh’s role in a drug racket.

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It was after a crime investigation agency inspector Inderjit Singh — who was arrested and subsequently dismissed from the service for allegedly helping drug smugglers in getting acquitted — named the SSP Raj Jit as his “patron”.
Raj Jit has however moved to court that Special Task Force (STF), formed to curb the drug menace, chief Harpreet Singh Sidhu was implicating him the case.

In his report filed before the HC on Friday, Chattopadhyaya said the SIT’s investigation had also brought to light the role of DGP Arora and DGP (intelligence) Gupta in the same drug trafficking case.

“Several significant facts and pointers, including reportedly the benami house of a DGP, are being investigated to confirm their involvement in the case,” the application filed by Chattopadhyaya added. The DGP Arora has however, denied the allegation.

He further stated that at the behest of Arora and Gupta, attempts were now being made to implicate him in the Inderpreet Singh Chadha suicide case.
Amritsar-based businessman, Chadha, committed suicide on January 3, after a video of his father Charanjeet Singh Chadha, showing him in a compromising position with the principal of a school managed by his organisation, went viral and he was booked for sexual harassment.

Chadha had mentioned Chattopadhyaya’s name in his dairy written in 2016 in connection with a case filed against him in the NRI Commission, where Chattopadhyaya was a member then.

The SIT probing the suicide case, which is headed by inspector general of police (crime) LK Yadav, had issued a questionnaire to Chattopadhyaya on 2 April.

The latter, however, stated before the HC that his name was not mentioned in the two suicide notes left behind by Chadha.

Chattopadhyaya alleged he was regularly being harassed by the SIT headed by Yadav in order to pressurise him to change the course of the investigation. He requested the court to hand over the investigation against him to the CBI.

The HC on Friday stayed the investigation against Chattopadhyaya in the suicide case, and asked Punjab police to report the details of its probe in the matter to the court on 23 April.

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