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  • IPS officer indicted for hard Rs 20 lakh bribe to let rape accused off the hook

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    LUCKNOW: IPS officer Aniruddh Kumar Singh has been indicted for hard Rs 20 lakh as bribe from the executive of a college to let him off the hook in a rape case.

    A probe were ordered after the police officer, who was once then posted in Varanasi, was once noticed hard Rs 20 lakh as bribe from the rape accused in a video.

    The video of Singh hard the bribe went viral on March 12 when he was once posted in Meerut as Further Superintendent of Police (Meerut Rural). Taking cognisance of the viral video, the then DGP DS Chauhan ordered a probe to be performed via the then Varanasi police commissioner Mutha Ashok Jain who entrusted the probe to DIG Santosh Kumar. The probe file was once passed over to the DGP’s administrative center on Might 30.

    To begin with, Singh had maintained that he himself had were given the video shot to entice the accused. Alternatively, after the probe, the declare of Singh remained unsubstantiated.

    Primary Secretary, (House), Sanjay Prasad, mentioned that prima facie the probe performed had discovered benefit within the case following which assent was once given for additional departmental court cases towards the IPS officer.

    The officer had allegedly discussed within the common diary that he had sought after to entice the accused within the rape case two days later.

    LUCKNOW: IPS officer Aniruddh Kumar Singh has been indicted for hard Rs 20 lakh as bribe from the executive of a college to let him off the hook in a rape case.

    A probe were ordered after the police officer, who was once then posted in Varanasi, was once noticed hard Rs 20 lakh as bribe from the rape accused in a video.

    The video of Singh hard the bribe went viral on March 12 when he was once posted in Meerut as Further Superintendent of Police (Meerut Rural). Taking cognisance of the viral video, the then DGP DS Chauhan ordered a probe to be performed via the then Varanasi police commissioner Mutha Ashok Jain who entrusted the probe to DIG Santosh Kumar. The probe file was once passed over to the DGP’s administrative center on Might 30.googletag.cmd.push(serve as() googletag.show(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); );

    To begin with, Singh had maintained that he himself had were given the video shot to entice the accused. Alternatively, after the probe, the declare of Singh remained unsubstantiated.

    Primary Secretary, (House), Sanjay Prasad, mentioned that prima facie the probe performed had discovered benefit within the case following which assent was once given for additional departmental court cases towards the IPS officer.

    The officer had allegedly discussed within the common diary that he had sought after to entice the accused within the rape case two days later.

  • Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan welcomes retired IPS officer RB Sreekumar’s arrest

    Through ANI

    NEW DELHI: Expressing pleasure over the arrest of former IPS officer RB Sreekumar by way of Gujarat Police on Saturday, former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan mentioned that motion have been taken towards the retired police reputable for “fabricating tales and looking to sensationalise them” and “it’s precisely what he did in my case additionally” over the 1994 ISRO espionage case.

    Former Gujarat DGP RB Sreekumar used to be arrested by way of Gujarat Police on Saturday, an afternoon after Splendid Court docket ruling on June 24 which upheld the blank chit given to High Minister Narendra Modi by way of a Gujarat court docket within the 2002 riots case.

    Talking to ANI over the telephone, Narayanan mentioned that the previous officer used to be “crossing all limits of decency” and “there may be restrict to the whole thing”.

    “I got here to understand that he used to be arrested nowadays for holding on fabricating tales and looking to sensationalise them, there used to be a fee towards him. It’s precisely what he did in my case additionally. However our machine is such that any one can say any unfastened commentary and escape with it. That is what some accountable folks at larger positions additionally stay on doing,” Narayanan mentioned.

    “Now that it’s proven by way of Splendid Court docket that you’ll’t do it anymore. So that they will have to be at the back of the docks. That method, I’m more than happy to understand that he’s being arrested as a result of there’s a restrict for the whole thing. I feel he’s crossing the entire limits on the subject of decency, on the subject of judicial prudence,” he added.

    Narayanan accused Sreekumar of creating false statements about him. “I in my view really feel no matter he’s charged with is appropriate to my case additionally. At some point he’s going to say that I’m corrupt. It has not anything to do with the case, it’s closed. However once more he’s going to say, he’s going to deliver any person else to mention this. That is what he has saved on doing. Now I’m hoping that he’s going to prevent doing that. He will have to even be punished for that,” he alleged.

    Narayanan mentioned nobody will have to be allowed to make the most of loopholes of legislation. “When he used to be arrested I used to be more than happy as a result of he’s going to stay on doing this sort of mischief at all times, there will have to be an finish to any such factor. This is the reason I mentioned, I’m more than happy. Similar factor applies to me in all respects,” he mentioned.

    “He’ll stay on telling one thing. He’ll employ the loopholes of the legislation after which attempt to play his playing cards in any such way in order that you get uninterested and run away. In order that no matter he’s announcing turns into true. That is what he has been doing with such a lot of instances. I need to make it transparent, this isn’t on,” he added.

    The CBI had moved Splendid Court docket towards the Kerala Prime Court docket order of August 2021 granting anticipatory bail to 4 individuals together with Sreekumar in a case when it comes to the alleged framing of Nambi Narayanan within the 1994 ISRO espionage subject.

    The top court docket had granted anticipatory bail to Sreekumar and two former law enforcement officials of Kerala and a retired intelligence reputable in reference to the case.

    Nambi Narayanan and any other former ISRO scientist had in August final yr advised CBI crew probing the ISRO conspiracy case that they had been subjected to “psychological and bodily torture” by way of former Kerala police and Intelligence Bureau officials. Sreekumar used to be then the Deputy Director of the Intelligence Bureau.

  • Arond 40 IPS officials transferred in Maharashtra, Nashik town will get new police leader

    Via PTI

    MUMABI: In a big reshuffle, the Maharashtra govt on Wednesday promoted or transferred round 40 senior cops, together with Nashik police commissioner Deepak Pandey, who has been changed, days after he reportedly alleged that land mafias have been hand in glove with a piece of earnings division officers and confronted flak for going public at the factor.

    Transfers and promotions have been introduced in more than one legit orders. DIG (VIP safety) Jayant Naiknavare will substitute Pandey because the Nashik police commissioner. Pandey, who used to be criticised by way of Income Minister Balasaheb Thorat for making the allegation within the media, has been appointed particular inspector normal (prevention of atrocities on ladies division).

    Within the backdrop of loudspeaker row, Pandey had issued directives a couple of days in the past mentioning nobody shall be allowed to play bhajan or songs on loudspeakers inside 15-minute length sooner than and after the decision of ‘azaan’ within the radius of 100 meters of any mosque in Nashik town.

    The directives have been issued within the wake of MNS president Raj Thackeray’s call for that loudspeakers atop mosques be got rid of by way of Might 3 or else Hanuman Chalisa shall be performed on loudspeakers in entrance of them. Consistent with media stories, in March Pandey had written a letter to the DGP in search of switch out of Nashik town.

    In a separate letter to the state police leader, the IPS officer had sought curtailment in powers of district earnings officials and likewise steered sure administrative adjustments. The federal government has additionally transferred Pimpri-Chinchwad Police Commissioner Krishna Prakash, who would be the new Spl IG (VIP safety), Maharashtra. Spl IG (Sudhar Seva) Ankush Shinde will substitute Prakash because the Pimpri-Chinchwad police commissioner.

    In every other construction, Joint Commissioner of Mumbai Police’s Crime Department Milind Bharambe and Spl IG (Legislation & Order) Suhas Warke had been transferred to one another’s posts.  Joint Commissioner of Pune town Ravindra Shisve has been appointed IG (State human rights fee), whilst senior officer Sureshkumar Mekala has been named IG (State CID).

    DIG Anti-Corruption Bureau (ACB) Lakhmi Gautam has been transferred as IG (status quo) within the Maharashtra police headquarters, whilst Further Commissioner of Mumbai Police’s West Area Sandeep Karnik has been promoted and appointed in Shisve’s position.

    Some other senior officer and Karnik’s batchmate Satyanarayan who serves in Mumbai Police’s Visitors division has been appointed IG (coastal safety), his counterpart in Mumbai’s North area Praveenkumar Padwal, joint commissioner of police (EOW), whilst S Jaykumar has been promoted as IG (management) within the state police headquarters.

    IPS officer Nishith Mishra has been posted as IG (Anti-Terrorism Squad), Sanjay Mohite promoted as IG (Konkan vary), Dattatray Karale promoted as JCP Thane, Pravin Pawar promoted as Director, Maharashtra Intelligence Academy, and Balasaheb G Shekhar as IG (Nashik vary).

    In all, the federal government has promoted 14 officers as particular police inspector normal and transferred a lot of them in other places. 11 officers have been promoted as deputy inspector normal and transferred from their present position of posting.

  • Centre protective IPS officer Rashmi Shukla in telephone tapping case: Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut

    By way of PTI

    MUMBAI: Shiv Sena chief Sanjay Raut on Wednesday claimed the Centre is protective IPS officer Rashmi Shukla who’s being probed for alleged telephone tapping of sure political leaders. Chatting with newshounds right here, Raut mentioned be it Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole, himself or another leaders, all have been labelled “anti-social parts” and their telephones have been tapped.

    Some other folks have been labelled as “drug peddlers and gangsters” and this took place when the Shiv Sena-led Maha Vikas Aghadi (MVA) govt used to be being shaped in November 2019, the Rajya Sabha MP claimed.

    “Any person used to be carrying out surveillance on us and looking for out in regards to the formation of the brand new govt. Our privateness used to be invaded… One police officer, who is predicted to paintings impartially, used to be doing it to turn her loyalty to at least one political birthday party and a pacesetter. Now the Centre is protective her, like all the time. That is unlucky,” Raut mentioned with out naming Shukla, a former head of the State Intelligence Division (SID).

    The senior IPS officer is going through an FIR in Mumbai and is being probed for allegedly striking the telephone numbers of Raut and previous BJP chief Eknath Khadse (who’s now within the NCP) beneath surveillance when she headed the SID.

    The Pune police had additionally registered an FIR in opposition to Shukla in reference to alleged tapping of the telephones of Patole. Shukla served because the Pune police commissioner between March 2016 and July 2018.

    She is recently posted with the Central Reserve Police Drive. In a plea filed within the Bombay Top Court docket in one of the most alleged telephone tapping circumstances, Shukla had claimed she used to be being “falsely implicated” and known as herself a sufferer of “political vendetta”.

  • Will listen appearing Maharashtra DGP Sanjay Pandey over plea for everlasting appointment: Bombay HC

    By means of PTI

    MUMBAI: The Bombay Top Courtroom on Friday mentioned it is going to have to listen to senior IPS officer and present appearing Director Normal of Police (DGP) of Maharashtra, Sanjay Pandey ahead of passing an order on a petition looking for everlasting appointment of an officer to the submit.

    A department bench of Leader Justice Dipankar Datta and Justice MS Karnik mentioned that whilst previous this week it had closed the subject for judgment noting that there used to be no want to listen Pandey, it has later come to the courtroom’s understand that there are some direct allegations towards the IPS officer within the petition.

    “Whilst dictating our judgment within the case, we got here throughout a couple of paragraphs within the petition the place there are particular direct allegations made towards Sanjay Pandey. In view of this, we deem it suitable and vital to implead Sanjay Pandey as a birthday party respondent within the petition. We will be able to listen him first after which move our judgment,” the courtroom mentioned.

    The courtroom recalled its January 25 order booking the subject for judgment. The bench on Friday directed Pandey to record his affidavit based on the petition by means of February 4. The Maharashtra executive and the UPSC shall additionally record affidavits in the event that they want to, the bench mentioned, posting the subject for additional listening to.

    The courtroom used to be listening to a public hobby litigation filed by means of a city-based recommend Datta Mane looking for instructions to the state executive to make an enduring appointment to the submit of the Director Normal of Police (DGP).

    Mane’s recommend Abhinav Chandrachud had argued that as in keeping with a judgment handed by means of the Splendid Courtroom, the submit of the state’s best police officer may just now not be an appearing one and that an officer with the minimal tenure necessities as in keeping with the 2006 ruling should be appointed.

    The petition sought that the state executive should appoint a DGP as in keeping with the advice made by means of the choice committee of the UPSC in November 2021.

    Recommend Normal Ashutosh Kumbhakoni, showing for the state executive, had informed the courtroom that Pandey, lately the senior maximum IPS officer within the state, were appointed because the appearing DGP ultimate 12 months after the then DGP Subodh Jaiswal vacated the submit midterm following his switch to the CBI.

    Within the November 1 assembly of the UPSC variety committee, of which the state’s then Leader Secretary Sitaram Kunte used to be a birthday party, the names of IPS officials Hemant Nagrale, Rajnish Seth and Ok Venkatesham have been really helpful for the submit of Maharashtra DGP.

    Kunte signed off at the 3 names on the time, however on November 8, he wrote to the UPSC announcing that it had erred in now not recommending the present appearing DGP Sanjay Pandey’s title and that it could rethink the similar.

    The courtroom had previous this week famous that Kunte’s habits used to be now not correct and now not in line with any criminal rules. The bench had famous that it didn’t behove Kunte to have now not raised a criticism or identified the mistake dedicated, if any, by means of the committee ahead of signing off at the 3 names.

    Further Solicitor Normal Anil Singh, showing for the Union executive, had informed the courtroom that when the 3 names were really helpful, there used to be no query for the UPSC to rethink the similar.