CP Gurugram replaces ADGP Subhash Yadav in Special Enquiry Team

Tribune News Service 

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Chandigarh, May 30

Commissioner of Police (CP) Gurugram Muhammad Akil has replaced ADGP Subhash Yadav in the Special Enquiry Team (SET) formed to probe liquor smuggling across the state.

ADGP Subhash Yadav is retiring on May 31.

The SET is headed by ACS Power TC Gupta, with the third member being Additional Excise and Taxation Officer Vijay Singh.

Confirming the development, Home Minister Anil Vij said the deadline for the SET had also been extended till July 31.

Earlier, the SET was to give its report by May 31.

“We asked TC Gupta how much more time was needed. He replied that he needed two more months. So, we have extended the deadline,” said Vij.

Earlier, Vij wanted to empower the SET with Section 32 of the CrPC so that it could record statements of witnesses. But Advocate General Haryana BR Mahajan opined that Section 32 of the CrPC couldn’t be read solely, but along with Section 26 to Section 32.

The AG added that the SET recommendations could lead to registration of FIRs and then the probe agency could go deeper and record the statements.

As per the terms of reference, the SET will check the actual availability of stocks in all warehouses or godowns that were sealed by the Excise Department during the last two years and will examine the cases of seizure of illicit liquor in Haryana from April 1, 2019, to March 31, 2020, both by the police and the Excise Department separately.

It will also collect and collate the result of investigation of the FIRs registered from March 15, 2020, till May 10, 2020, that have been registered in various parts of the state for pilferage of liquor from L-1 and L-13 godowns and also from the ‘malkhanas’ of the police stations.