Gujarat cadre IPS officer M Sekar whose diligent investigation while on deputation to the CBI had exposed Harshad Mehta's multi-million stock market scam in 1992, has filed a petition before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT)
Gujarat cadre IPS officer M Sekar whose diligent investigation while on deputation to the CBI had exposed Harshad Mehta's multi-million stock market scam in 1992, has filed a petition before the Central Administrative Tribunal (CAT). Sekar, a 1983 batch IPS officer, was dismissed from service by the Union government in January this year on charges of corruption while in the CBI.
In his petition, Sekar has alleged that he had been victimised for his honest investigation in the stock market scam as he had tried to expose some powerful people involved in it. He has also alleged that the then CBI director, Vijay Ram Rao, was instrumental in ruining his career.
Talking to DNA, his advocate, PH Pathak, alleged that Sekar was victimised just because he had not obeyed the instructions of the then CBI director, Vijay Ram Rao, while investigating the scam. The lawyer further said that Sekar was charge-sheeted after a departmental enquiry and dismissed from service.
In his petition, Sekar has stated that he was deputed to the CBI in 1991 but, all of a sudden, repatriated unceremoniously to his parent cadre in 1994. He was also withdrawn from the Harshad Mehta case as he had gone too deep in his investigations, he states in his petition.
Soon after his return to Gujarat, a departmental enquiry was initiated against him by the CBI and he was charge-sheeted in February 1997.
Sekar was accused of obliging an accused of the Mehta scam and, in return, taking a plot of land from him in the name of his wife. But his wife also had an independent income as she was a nurse at a hospital in Mumbai.
"The allegation was baseless as the plot was purchased 2 years before Sekar was handed over the investigation of the Harshad Mehta case. The inquiry officer failed to consider this fact. Further, the CBI, which had registered the case against him, had filed a closure report in the case. This fact was also suppressed from the CVC and the UPSC," Pathak said.
The case is now scheduled for further hearing on December 2 when Sekar has been asked to file a rejoinder to the Union home ministry's submission. In reply to Sekar's petition, the home ministry had stated that the competent authority, after a careful consideration of the case, had ordered his dismissal from service.
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