CBI, NIA probe sought in DSP graft case
Days after the registration of a Rs 45 lakh graft case against Deputy Superintendent of Police Vavinder Mahajan, his lawyer and daughter today urged the Central and Punjab government to hand over the probe to an independent agency.
They alleged that the FIR was registered as part of a hidden conspiracy to keep him out of the case which involved a well oiled racket with influential persons indulging in alleged illegal manufacturing and sale of pharmaceutical drugs.
“We are demanding a probe by the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) or National Investigation Agency (NIA) as the probe would involve companies, involved in the racket, from other states like Maharashtra and Himachal Pradesh,” said Mahajan’s lawyer Ajay Vermani and daughter Sansha Mahajan while talking to media persons here today.
While countering the claims of seizure of unaccounted cash from the house, they claimed that ‘no incriminating substance’ including cash or drugs was found from the house during the raid.
Vermani also raised a question as to why two drug inspectors who had voluntarily given the statements were not nominated in the FIR till now for being part of plan to supply the ‘bribed money’ as being claimed in the case. “DSP Vavinder Mahajan wanted to nail the big fish in the racket involved in illegal manufacturing and sale of pharmaceutical drugs. That is why he was earlier transferred and now booked on frivolous grounds,” he said.
Sansha Mahajan, who is also a lawyer, said that her father had not run away. “We are only in the process of availing our legal rights,” she pointed out. She said when the two drug inspectors claimed to have handed over the bribed money to her father on May 20, he along with other senior police officials had gone to Delhi for investigations in the seizure of 1.98 crore banned intoxicants and huge quantity of raw material from a HP-based factory. She urged the Department of Home to allow her father to join the probe and give him a chance to present his side of the case. She said she would approach the Punjab and Haryana High Court for justice.
