Bapunagar PI suspended for negligence in duty. He is the latest episode in the long-running series in which PIs are under fire for ignoring illegal activities in their areas.
The July 2009 hooch tragedy in city had claimed more than 150 lives and exposed the brazen nexus between bootleggers and cops. To save their face, city police had suspended four police inspectors, two ACPs and slapped transfer punishment on 40 other personnel.
However, this exemplary punishment seems to have had little effect on erring cops as is evidenced by uninterrupted series of suspensions of senior cops in city. The suspension of Bapunagar police inspector (PI) RD Lashkari on Saturday for negligence in duty is the latest episode in this saga.
In the short span of last eight month, almost equal number of PIs has been suspended for dereliction of duty or for their alleged involvement in criminal activities.
Just like Lashkari, Shaherkotda PI MB Nagori was suspended late last month. Sector-I JCP (joint commissioner of police) raided a bootlegger's house in Shaherkotda on April 25 and seized 467 crates of IMFL and 140 crates of beer and Nagori faced the axe.
Liquor-racket had also proved undoing of the now suspended PI of Dariapur, VM Jani in February. Junagadh-based bootlegger Nagdan Gadhavi had alleged that Jani had accepted Rs20 lakh bribe to release him after he was arrested in connection with a case. A case was registered against Jani at his own police station and he was suspended and arrested subsequently.
Another senior cop HM Kundalia, PI of Sola, too was suspended early this year after notorious betting king Dinesh Kalgi's den in a farm house on SG Highway was busted. The same PI was suspended earlier also for the same kind of reason. Before eight month, Amraiwadi PI DB Raulji had also faced suspension after DCP Sachin Badshah raided notorious gambler Raghu Sawa's den in that area.
While these senior cops invited trouble by allegedly turning blind eye to illegal liquor selling or other criminal activities going on in their area, a few have shown weakness for bribe. Sarkhej PI MM Zala was suspended and later arrested in March this year for allegedly demanding Rs5 lakh bribe from an accused in a land fraud case. The accused had alleged that the PI had demanded the bribe for not to subject him to physical torture when he was under detention.
Similarly, AJ Solanki, PI of Vatva, was also suspended earlier this year after he was caught red handed-accepting Rs75,000 bribe. Moreover BL Chaudhary, another PI of the same police station, was also accused of of demanding Rs5 lakh cash and a flat to settle a land deal case.
Last year, Sarkhej DySP RS Rana was suspended after he was caught accepting Rs4 lakh bribe in Fatehwadi area in Sarkhej.
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