Lokayukta notices to two DSPs, inspector

Sunit Dhawan

Tribune News Service

Rohtak, January 21

The Lokayukta has issued notices to two DSPs and an inspector in connection with wrongful cancellation of an FIR in a property fraud case.

Lokayukta Justice Nawal Kishore Agarwal ordered the issuance of notices on inspector Sandeep Kumar, a former SHO of Civil Lines police station at Rohtak and former DSPs Amit Bhatia (Rohtak) and Pardeep Kumar (Kharkhauda).

The said officials have been asked to file their reply/objections by April 18, which is the next date of hearing. Ramesh Kumar of the Civil Lines police station here has been directed to file the status report by the said date.

The role of the said police officers as well as the then tehsildar, his reader and a deed-writer is also under the scanner. In a case of property fraud, a plot was sold on the basis of a general power of attorney (GPA) given by a woman, who was fraudulently shown alive at the time of the registration of the sale-deed.

Madhu, a resident of Panipat, was allegedly defrauded by her brother Praveen Kumar, a Rohtak-based trader. Praveen reportedly sold a plot to his wife, Geeta, on the basis of the GPA given by his mother Bimla Devi. The plot was sold to Madhu, who later found that the said GPA was invalid as Bimla Devi was dead at the time when the plot was sold to Geeta. However, Bimla was shown alive at the time of the sale-deed registration. Madhu lodged a complaint with the then SP, who marked the case to the economic cell of the police.

Subsequently, an FIR was lodged against nine persons, including Praveen and his wife Geeta, the tehsildar and his reader, besides five other persons. However, certain police officers, including the inspector and the two DSPs, who probed the matter at different points of time, failed to acknowledge the apparent the fraud despite documentary evidence and cancelled the FIR. In the meantime, the complainant approached the HC, Lokayukta, senior police officials and other authorities concerned. Eventually, the case reopened and Praveen was arrested.