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Ludhiana court orders FIR against retired DSP for misplacing case file
The Ludhiana court also ordered the police to reconstruct the file within two months after taking documents from the complainant in the five-year old forgery case
The court of a judicial magistrate ordered the registration of a first information report (FIR) against a retired deputy superintendent of police (DSP) Devraj for misplacing the file for a five-year old case of forgery.
The court of judicial magistrate Ravipal Singh also ordered the police to reconstruct the file within two months after taking documents from the complainant, Sumeet Sofat, a city-based doctor in its November 29 order.
Sofat said he had filed a complaint against Congress leader Simmi Pashan and Ramesh Pashan to the police, but no action was taken, following which he had moved the court. Later, the Division number 5 police on July 13, 2018, lodged a forgery case following a court order.
He added that after lodging the FIR, when the police did not submit a chargesheet, he again moved court. During the court proceedings, it was found that the case file had been misplaced. Following his complaint, the court ordered the Division number 5 police station house officer (SHO) to trace the file.
SHO sub-Inspector Neeraj Chaudhary in his statement on September 19 said the FIR was transferred to Division number 8 after a change in the jurisdiction. Assistant sub-inspector (ASI) Sukhraj Singh deputed at the latter in his statement claimed that the file was last traced with Devraj, who was a sub-inspector at the time and incharge at the Ghumar Mandi police post in 2018.
The court ordered that an FIR be registered against Devraj and directed the police to investigate the role of any other person in misplacing the file.
