The then station home officer of Varanasi’s Sarnath police station and three others have been booked for impersonation and theft on Thursday for allegedly looting ₹41 lakh from the flat of a residential condominium the place some merchants have been concerned in playing on the intervening evening of November 7 and eight, confirmed senior police officers right here on Friday.
The inspector has been positioned underneath suspension and additional probe into the incident is occurring. (For Illustration)
The video footage of the CCTV of the condominium constructing had earlier gone viral during which inspector Paramhans Gupta together with others was noticed going together with money.
The inspector was suspended quickly by the Varanasi police authorities on Monday and despatched to order police traces. He was later connected to CB-CID throughout the suspension interval.
The present in-charge of Sarnath police station Vivek Kumar Tripathi has lodged an FIR on the similar police station accusing the previous inspector, his aide Dharmendra Chaubey, who posed himself because the chief minister’s OSD, the proprietor of Rudra Heights, the place some folks have been playing, and different unknown individuals of theft and impersonation.
HT has accessed the copy of the FIR which reveals that the previous inspector has been charged underneath Bhartiya Nyay Sanhita (BNS) sections 319(2) for impersonation and 309(4) for theft in addition to part 3/4 of the Public Playing Act.
As per the FIR, the inspector (now suspended) arrived at Rudra Heights together with his aide Dharmendra Chaubey and extorted cash from the playing merchants and picked up the quantity in two baggage after displaying concern of authorized motion.
The FIR mentioned the accused took away ₹41 lakh from the place however no grievance was obtained on this regard. Later, Sarnath police station in-charge Vivek Kumar Tripathi himself lodged the FIR because it was a critical offence.
The suspended inspector’s identify isn’t new to controversy. A number of years in the past, his identify had surfaced in a matrimonial dispute throughout his posting as sub-inspector at Hazratganj police station. He was suspended even then additionally.
In an analogous incident just lately in Kanpur, 4 policemen, together with the then Rail Bazar police station in-charge Vijay Darshan Sharma, have been suspended on October 21 for recovering gold that was stolen from the home of a trainer after which allegedly promoting it to a neighborhood jeweller.
The incident got here to mild after ornaments and valuables price ₹25 lakh have been stolen from the home of a trainer Shalini Dubey, a resident of Barra, on September 30.
The thief was arrested by Barra station in-charge Rajesh Sharma with the assistance of the CCTV footage. The arrested thief additional revealed throughout interrogation that the Rail Bazar police had held his gang of thieves earlier however later launched them after retaining the stolen gold with them.