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Pouring cold water on sensational cases
THE ALLAHABAD police, who had been under the scanner for its inability to check crime and work out important cases, have now acquired a new role. The police have started writing off heinous crime either at the instance of the powers that be or on their own due to obvious reasons.
THE ALLAHABAD police, who had been under the scanner for its inability to check crime and work out important cases, have now acquired a new role.
The police have started writing off heinous crime either at the instance of the powers that be or on their own due to obvious reasons.
Remember the spine-chilling killing of Sant Gyaneshwar and his eight disciples on the outskirts of the city on February 30 this year. The cops were reportedly proceeding in the right direction and even arrested one of the shooters Akhilesh Singh, who spilled the beans by naming Chandra Bhadra Singh alias Sonu and Indra Bhadra Singh aka Monu in this massacre. Sonu is a Samajwadi Party MLA from Isauli in Sultanpur district. These murders were allegedly the outcome of the murder of Sonu's father in which the Sant Gyaneshwar's role was allegedly suspected.
During the ongoing police investigation in this case it was reportedly Dhananjay Singh, another MLA from Jaunpur, who got the case transferred to the CB-CID.
It's a well known fact that 90 per cent of CB-CID cases die out due to one reason or the other. This case too, it seems, is heading in the same direction.
The Amrendra Pandey murder case is also being treated in the same fashion. As a trade union leader Amrendra was riddled with bullets a few months back allegedly at the behest of the factory MD and some others who were named in the FIR.
The MD tried to procure stay on his arrest but the Allahabad High Court denied the same, saying there was sufficient evidence against him in the FIR. But the cops went one step ahead by expunging the name of the MD in the final report as well as two mangers of Triveni Sheet Glass Factory where Amrendra was employed.
The managers had been arrested the night the murder was committed. But now they have been given a clean chit by the men in uniform, who have been given the powers to twist and turn any case according to their whims and fancies.
All this has happened even when almost the entire Ghurpur was crying foul against the cops.
This factory has much more blood on its walls. Gaya Prasad Tewari, another employee leader of this factory, was also eliminated under almost the same circumstances in which Amrendra lost his life. He was murdered on June 16, 2005 in Naini. The investigation was in the hands of inspector Naini RPS Yadav, who did not move an inch in this case. The victim's son moved the High Court.
The court ordered the investigation to be completed within three months. But, hardly any progress has taken place so far. Finally, when workers launched agitation, the then IG AC Sharma had ordered the investigation to be carried out by inspector SS Shukla. This cop was about to name the real people in this case when he was sent to lines. So, the investigations will now be handed over to another person.
Police sources, on condition of anonymity, said a senior police officer wanted Shukla to remove all those names which he had included in the investigation obviously to save them from the gallows. But, the inspector refused saying there was sufficient evidence against them. So he had to go obviously to pave the way for another inspector.
