Mumbai police has found a senior inspector with RAK Marg police negligent in his duties over the mysterious disappearance of Pakistani national Siraj Khan Murad Khan Pathan from his station's premises. Despite being under a restriction order, Khan went missing in October 2014. As a penalising action, the department has decided not to give increment for a year to the senior inspector.
Mumbai police has found a senior inspector with RAK Marg police negligent in his duties over the mysterious disappearance of Pakistani national Siraj Khan Murad Khan Pathan from his station's premises. Despite being under a restriction order, Khan went missing in October 2014. As a penalising action, the department has decided not to give increment for a year to the senior inspector.
According to the police, on November 24, 2009, Khan, a Pakistani national was arrested by the RAK Marg police in a case registered under sections of Foreigners Act and Passport Act.
He was released after completing a six-month jail sentence, but was detained again by the RAK Marg police station on May 6, 2014, and has been under detention since then. He was however, traced later.
A police officer, requesting anonymity, said that Khan had been served a restriction order and was under the watch of the RAK Marg police, where Arun Inarkar was a senior inspector.
"Being a senior police inspector, it was important for Inarkar to appoint police officers and men for Khan's care, and take seriousness in the case. But he did not take any measures and Khan left the station premises without informing anyone," added the officer.
In an order, the high court had instructed the RAK Marg police that Khan cannot be detained by the police any more. He must be present in the RAK Marg police station daily from 7 am to 8 am, but cannot be detained.
A departmental probe was then initiated in the matter. "For this negligence, he has been penalised with no increment for a year. Inarkar can appeal to the office of additional chief secretary of home within 60 days from the issuance of this order," the officer said.
The HC on Wednesday stayed Khan's deportation to Pakistan. The court observed that his application seeking Indian citizenship was pending before the Ministry of External Affairs (MEA).
Khan, who landed in Amritsar in 1996 as an 11-year-old when he boarded a train while running away from home, came to Mumbai and later married Sajida, an Indian, in 2005. The couple has three children.
Khan worked as a waiter in a local restaurant and lived with his family in a slum in Antop Hill.
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