-: [rti4empowerment] Letter for enquiry in suspended DySP case from outside the Police Department

Tuesday, October 30, 2012

[rti4empowerment] Letter for enquiry in suspended DySP case from outside the Police Department

Friends,

Here is a news "UP police chief taking bribes, says junior officer" 
(http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_up-police-chief-taking-bribes-says-junior-officer_1757728) which says that a   middle rung police officer has levelled serious allegations of   corruption against the UP police chief and even charged him with taking   bribes for transfers. A police spokesman has denied all charges, and an   inquiry has been ordered against the police officer making the charges.
"No one can get any work done in the UP police without paying money.   Even the UP police chief (director general of police AC Sharma) does not   issue transfer orders without taking money," a deputy SP-level officer   VK Sharma told reporters in Bulandshahr on Monday.

Sharma has alleged that he was being   unduly for raising his voice against this high-handedness. "The IPS   officers think of PPS (provincial police service) officers as their   servants. No one can say a word against their harassment tactics, and if   one does, he is punished like I am being now," he told reporters.

However,   IG, Law and Order, BP Singh, has denied all charges and said Sharma had   been known for insubordination. He said while Sharma was posted to   Aligarh in August this year, he joined over two months later in October   without taking any leave. He also pointed out that Sharma had gone to   court twice against his transfer orders. Singh said an inquiry was being   conducted into the matter.

I have written a letter in my individual capacity  to the Chief Secretary and the Principal Secretary Home, UP as regards the news  related with this suspension. I have requested  in my letter that after this incidence, I talked to Sharma on phone and tried  to get the complete facts. Sharma spoke in details about his allegations of  frequent transfers, serious allegations on senior police officers, alleged improper  behaviour in IG, Kanpur Range meeting etc. 

Based on these talks, I have requested in my  letter that since Sharma has made serious allegations against the DGP of UP  Police himself, hence as per the directions of the Supreme Court in Ratan lal  Sharma vs Managing Director 1993  (4SCC) 727 and as per the Principles of Natural Justice, all these allegations  like political pressure in dowry death case, frequent transfers, abusive behaviour  with him by the then IG Kanpur Range etc shall be enquired into by a senior  officer, not from the Police Department , so that the message clearly goes that  justice is not only being done, it is seen to being done. 

I hope you agree with some of the points raised by me in my letter.
 
Amitabh Thakur
  IPS,
  Lucknow
  # 94155-34526