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Deputy SP ?rewarded? with transfer
DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT of police Rajeshwar Singh, who refused to buckle under mafia pressure, was shunted to anti-corruption branch in Faizabad.
DEPUTY SUPERINTENDENT of police Rajeshwar Singh, who refused to buckle under mafia pressure, was shunted to anti-corruption branch in Faizabad.
His fault: He refused to go soft on Samajwadi Party MP Ateeq Ahmad’s cousin Hamza, an accused in the murder of railway contractor Nanhe Khan.
Khan was bombed to death and his body left riddled with bullets on August 5 on Thornhill road across the Dhobi Ghat in Civil Lines. Nanhe’s nephew Ansar had lodged a named FIR in this sensational murder against Hamza, two railway contractors, and two shooters Sohrab and Mannu.
The wrangling between Nanhe and his rivals was over a Rs 2 crore worth tender. Nanhe had managed to keep his hold over the tender.
Hamza either wanted his cut of Rs 15 lakh or the tender to be handed over to the two railway contractors who had been vying for it.
Even though Nanhe had reportedly paid a sum of Rs 2 lakh and would have given more to Hamza, but he was allegedly bumped off at the instance of Hamza, the key man in the murder plot.
While everything was going against Hamza, the DySP was pressurised by some of his seniors to let Hamza off the hook. He told Hindustan Times he also got calls from the Samajwadi Party MP Ateeq Ahmad in this connection.
He said after he returned from leave on August 15, he took the Civil Lines police to task for taking down contradictory statements in his absence of Sohrab and Mannu.
According to the FIR, the motive of the murder was the tender which Nanhe had manged to bag.
But the police went down to the extent of recording the contradictory statements of Sohrab and Mannu who told them that they had murdered Nanhe Khan due to land dispute, said the Dy SP.
On the other hand, the same day he wrote to the inspector, Civil Lines, to issue a non-bailable warrant against Hamza and arrest him for complicity in the murder as there was enough evidence of his involvement.
These two actions of his turned out to be the cause of his transfer within hours.
On Tuesday morning,he took the two above steps and by night there was
a fax message of his transfer.
Without naming his seniors, he blamed them for the rise in crime in the city because they were acting at the behest of the mafia, he claimed.
