Booked on rape charge, cop dismissed

Tribune News Service
Chandigarh, October 23

Almost a week after a Sub-Inspector (SI) of the UT police was booked on a charge of raping a Mumbai-based model, the police have dismissed him from service.

SI Naveen Kumar, against whom a case was registered at the Sector 31 police station, is at large.

The  victim came in contact with the suspect earlier this year after she filed a cheating complaint against a city youth alleging that he had fraudulently withdrawn Rs 12 lakh from her account. The complaint was marked to the cyber cell of the UT police for investigation. SI Naveen Kumar, who was then posted in the cyber cell, investigated the complaint following which a case was registered against the suspect, Rahul, a resident of Dhanas. Rahul had approached the victim through Facebook on the pretext of providing her modelling assignments and later allegedly duped her of Rs 12 lakh. 

Police sources said since Naveen was investigating the case, he became friends with the victim and allegedly raped her in a hotel.

The victim recently submitted a complaint against the SI to the UT police following which the police probed the matter and registered a case against him. SI Naveen Kumar, who was also the investigating officer in the multi-crore Bitcoin scam, was transferred from the cyber cell to the Police Lines, Sector 26, in July this year following corruption allegations against him. 

Though the police had stated that the transfers were made on administrative grounds, sources said there was a complaint against Naveen due to which he was transferred.